The ex-girlfriend of a man who battered her kitten to death has described her night of horror.

Daniel Moran got into an argument with his girlfriend after she had gone to bed following a barbecue at her house, where he was temporarily staying.

She said: "I was saying: ‘Dan can you leave the room please; can you please leave.’

"And he smashed me on the bed, then threw me on the floor.

"He went out of my room, grabbed the banister rail and pulled them out.

"He was going to beat me with the stick but he saw the kitten and said: 'The only thing you care about is them.'

"I started cowering behind the door; he kept hitting [White Stripe] over and over again and it started convulsing.

"He grabbed it off the bed and threw it out the back window like a rag. the only word I can use is evil.

"He was punishing me, I don’t know. The one thing in my life are my little babies.

"He’s just an evil doer. If he could have killed all three, he would have."