Serial cat killer gets 16 years.

[Catherine]

I think the man is a serious danger to reoffend. I think you are quite right that he needs a psychiatric facility and not a prison.
Sadly such facilities are not doing much to help people get better. In this case I doubt he can get better. Still he needs to be where they can try to help him. He needs to be locked up for the full 16 years. However psychiatric hospitals send people out on day passes by themselves long before the sentence is up.

So he will be out in the world again in less than 10 years. He won't be on any registry so his new neighbours will not be forewarned. I wonder how many cats will go missing before someone makes the connection.

I think we have a right to protect ourselves from sick people. He is clearly sick therefore we should deal with him in a way that protects the rest of us.

Will his next victims be children? It is possible.