The Daily Mail reported Victoria Lodge pleaded guilty to animal cruelty and received a community order.

A guilty plea and a two-year community order are what the Daily Mail reported on November 3. A not-guilty plea and a trial date are what the Bournemouth Echo reported in April. Animal cruelty, in the Daily Mail, and causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal, in the Echo, are not the same charge line. Age 33 and age 32 are not the same age. The November order is the sentence the Daily Mail reports. The April page does not contain it.

The Daily Mail, in a story by Andy Dolan published at 07:14 EDT on 3 November 2026 and updated at 10:57 EDT, reported a woman who stabbed her pet dog to death after claiming it triggered her post-traumatic stress disorder has avoided jail. It reported Victoria Lodge said she could not cope with Celine, her adopted Macedonian sheepdog. It reported that after three months Lodge posted on social media that she wanted the dog gone and called her "demon spawn." It reported the 33-year-old contacted a charity helpline threatening to harm herself or the dog, which resulted in a visit by paramedics. It reported she told them she suffered from PTSD and bipolar disorder which had been triggered by Celine's behaviour, and that a paramedic offered to contact the RSPCA on her behalf. It reported that when he called with an update the next day she was hysterical and screaming and told him she had stabbed the dog. It reported Lodge, from Bournemouth, Dorset, then posted that the dog was dead and called a re-homing shelter that had arranged to take the animal to say it was not needed. It reported she pleaded guilty to a charge of animal cruelty but was spared prison by a judge at Bournemouth Crown Court, and that she was instead disqualified from keeping any animal indefinitely.

The Daily Mail reported Judge Jonathan Fuller said Lodge's adoption of Celine was ill-advised given her mental health issues. It quoted Elisa Allen, of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals: "Stabbing any living being is an appalling act of cruelty, and a lifetime ban on keeping or otherwise associating with animals is essential, but it cannot be the only response to such a horrific act of violence." Keeping or otherwise associating, in that quotation, and disqualified from keeping any animal, in the Daily Mail's account of the order, are not the same words. The quotation is Allen. It is not the order. It reported prosecutor Jade Philippou told the court on Friday that Lodge adopted Celine in January 2024. The page does not print the calendar date of that Friday. It quoted Philippou that there were social-media posts in which Lodge referred to the dog as "demon spawn," "stupid," and "unmanageable," and stated she hated Celine. It reported that after three months she had had enough of the animal and stabbed her on April 15. It reported paramedics attended with police and found the living room destroyed, with a trail of blood leading to the dog, who was still breathing and had her eyes open. It reported Philippou said Lodge failed to seek any help for Celine, who had been stabbed in the abdomen with a carving knife. It quoted Philippou that paramedics packed the wound with hemostatic gauze, to which the dog groaned, that they asked Lodge if she wished to go in the ambulance to a pet hospital, and that she said, "Get the f*** out of my house." The asterisks are the page's. It reported that despite those efforts Celine died, that the prosecution called it a deliberate disregard for welfare, that the dog was at the scene for some hours in severe distress, and that Lodge spent time cleaning some of the blood while the dog lay suffering.

The Daily Mail reported defence barrister Laura Deuxberry said the social-media posts were "clearly a cry for help" and raised Lodge's mental health difficulties. It reported a psychiatric report said there was no sign of dissociation or psychosis when Lodge stabbed Celine, but that she was likely struggling with emotional regulation and impulsivity. It reported Deuxberry said Lodge was more stable now, had a support network, had signed her two cats over to the RSPCA, and did not dispute a ban on keeping animals. The page does not print the cats' names. It quoted Judge Jonathan Fuller: "In any other circumstances, without the explanation of your mental state at the time, this would be regarded as very cruel – even egregious – case of cruelty." It quoted him that she got a large carving knife and pushed it through the dog's body, perforating a lung, and that vets later saw bruising from the force of it coming out the other side. It quoted him: "What you must realise is there is always a choice, even for someone like you, in whether you commit a crime or back off and try to see another way through it." It reported he handed Lodge a two-year community order with probation supervision. The indefinite disqualification is in the Daily Mail's earlier paragraph. The two-year community order is the sentence paragraph. Those are not the same part of the order.

The Bournemouth Echo, in a story by Hannah Knight, chief reporter, whose visible date field prints 09.04.2026 and whose structured data prints datePublished and dateModified as 2026-04-10T00:00:00Z, reported a woman had denied stabbing her dog and that a trial had been set for allegedly causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal. 09.04.2026, on the visible field, and 2026-04-10T00:00:00Z, in the structured data, are not the same day. It reported Victoria Lodge, 32 and of Parley Road in Bournemouth, appeared at Bournemouth Crown Court on Thursday, April 9, to enter her plea. Thirty-two, in the Echo, and 33, in the Daily Mail, are not the same age. Parley Road is the Echo. The Daily Mail does not print it. It reported she is charged with causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal, namely her dog, by stabbing it on Parley Road in Bournemouth on April 15, 2024. Causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal, in the Echo, and animal cruelty, in the Daily Mail, are not the same charge line. The Echo does not print the name Celine or the breed. It reported Lodge pleaded not guilty to the single charge at a plea and trial preparation hearing on April 9. Not guilty, on the Echo page, and pleaded guilty, in the Daily Mail's November 3 story, are not the same plea. It reported she was next due to appear for a mention hearing on October 8, and that a trial date had been set for January 25, 2027. October 8 and January 25, 2027, are the Echo. The Daily Mail's November 3 story does not print them, and it does not print a trial. The Echo's modified time is still 2026-04-10T00:00:00Z. That page does not print a community order, an indefinite ban, PTSD, or Judge Jonathan Fuller. The Daily Mail's account is the later one. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.