A delivery driver caught on a doorbell camera taking a cat from a garden has avoided jail. Catalin Stancu, 41, was handed an eight-week prison term, suspended for 12 months, after admitting that he took Nora from outside her home in Elland, West Yorkshire, in January.

Stancu, from Oldham , told police he saw the cat in the rain and was unsure if she had an owner, despite observing her collar.

A court heard Nora’s family endured three distressing days without her. After they posted footage of her being taken online, appealing for her return as she required medication, the video quickly went viral.…