Steven Bouquet

The Prison Service said that Steven Bouquet died at the Medway Maritime Hospital on 6 January 2022. Bouquets' cause of death was not announced; however, at the sentencing hearing the court was told that Bouquet had been diagnosed with thyroid cancer, which had metastasized to his liver and lungs.

On 8 June 2022, the first broadcast of the ITV documentary "How to Catch a Cat Killer" was broadcast. A spokesperson for Sussex Police stated that "An ITV documentary highlighting the successful Sussex Police investigation into the death of nine cats in Brighton will be aired this week. The ITV documentary will follow the complex and thorough investigation from the first reports being received in late 2018 through to sentencing in September 2021. It will show the breakthrough moment in May 2019 when CCTV captured Bouquet stabbing nine-month-old Hendrix in a passageway in Brighton, and his subsequent police interviews following arrest."

On 22 June 2021, at the Chichester Crown Court the criminal trial by jury with Judge Jeremy Gold QC presiding was held. Bouquet failed to appear for the court hearing and was tried in absentia. Jurors at the trial heard numerous shocked owners found their cats bleeding and dying on their doorsteps. The Crown Prosecutor advised the jury of the sixteen cat attacks, as follows:

On 12 July 2021, judge Jeremy Gold QC presided over the sentencing hearing at Hove Crown Court.

Mr. Levy, the owner of a previously killed cat had setup a closed-circuit television (CCTV) outside in the narrow alley connecting Church Street and North Road in Brighton to monitor the area. On 31 May 2019, the CCTV system captured Steven Bouquet bending over to stroke a nine-month old kitten named Hendrix, then removing a knife from his rucksack and stabbing Hendrix, who fled to their owners home. Stewart Montgomery, the owner of Hendrix found him bleeding profusely and took him to a vet, but Hendrix died from the wounds. The Sussex Police advised that the CCTV video was the evidence required to identify Bouquet as the Brighton Cat Killer.

On 2 June 2019, just two days after the Hendrix incident, Mr. Levy saw Bouquet in the area again on his live CCTV, and contacted the Sussex Police. Bouquet was promptly arrested; he was carrying a Leatherman multi-tool.

The Sussex Police were able to obtain enough evidence to charge Bouquet with killings of nine cats by stabbing them with a knife; the dead cats were named: Nancy, Ollie, Alan, Tommy, Cosmo, Hendrix, Hannah, Kyo and Gizmo. In addition, Bouquet injured another seven cats with knife stab wounds named: Wheatley, Alistair, Rigby, Gideon, Samson, Jasper and Maggie. These sixteen incidents occurred in Brighton, East Sussex, between October 2018 and June 2019.

Steven Bouquet (5 January 1967 – 6 January 2022), also known as the Brighton Cat Killer, was a British criminal who was sentenced to five-years and three-months in prison for killing nine cats, maiming seven more, possession of a knife in a public place and failing to answer bail. These attacks occurred in Brighton, East Sussex, England from October 2018 to June 2019.