West Ham defender Kurt Zouma is because of seem in court docket on Tuesday after being prosecuted by the RSPCA for abusing his pet cat.
Zouma’s brother Yoan can also be on account of seem at Thames Magistrates’ Courtroom on Tuesday for a primary listening to.
Each Kurt and Yoan are being prosecuted for offences beneath the Animal Welfare Act.
In February, Zouma was allegedly filmed slapping and kicking his pet cat in a video which was uploaded to Snapchat by his brother Yoan.
Zouma was subsequently fined £250,000 by West Ham whereas his two pet cats have been seized by the RSPCA.
The French defender has additionally misplaced out on a profitable private sponsorship with Adidas, who terminated its cope with the 27-year-old.
Zoma has continued to play for West Ham throughout the RSPCA’s investigation, whereas his brother Yoan was briefly suspended by Dagenham & Redbridge earlier than being allowed to return to the squad in March.
Talking about Zouma’s assault and West Ham’s choice to not droop him, supervisor David Moyes mentioned: ‘I don’t assume the membership may take extra motion or any faster. West Ham have fined him the utmost wages.
‘All of us settle for the actions are horrible and diabolical, however we’ve chosen to play him and we stand by that.
‘We're so dissatisfied it's utterly out of character from Kurt. He's a extremely good lad we're going to get him some assist and attempting to provide him as a lot assist as we are able to.
‘Like drink-driving offences, most individuals need to go to courses and the RSPCA are going to supply him with courses to grasp about animals and the best way to deal with them.
‘We are going to do every thing we are able to to verify Kurt is trying into it, and getting higher, and understanding it.
‘The incident is horrible, all of us completely agree with that. There was no one on this soccer membership who doesn’t agree with that. Sponsorship being taken away is one thing the membership will cope with, not me.’
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