A teenage boy was stabbed to death by a gang who used two dogs to chase him down and savage him, a court heard yesterday… Brian Altman QC, for the prosecution, told the court: "What was so unusual, if not unique, about this case is that in the initial stages of the attack both these dogs were deployed as weapons ... both dogs were unleashed, and chased and then brought down and savaged their victims, giving their human masters an advantage."What’s the etiquette for riding to the Clapham Hounds, I wonder?
Stirrup cup, or bottle of WKD? And does one wear pearls to the Hunt Ball, or one’s best bling?
The names of the accused suggest a reason why this wasn't the front page story of BBC news for two weeks.
ReplyDeleteWhile everyone has been wringing their hands since the introduction of the DDA 1991 the numbers of vicious owners and their dogs has grown and grown. The usual suspects, black and white (humans that is). A knee jerk piece of legislation perhaps but handled properly by the courts** particularly at the beginning then we wouldn't have the problems we have today. (** listen to me eh?)
ReplyDeleteIf laws were properly used and sentences properly given and fully served things could be so much different.
"The names of the accused suggest a reason why this wasn't the front page story of BBC news for two weeks."
ReplyDeleteI suspect you're right. Normally, this would be howled from the rooftops as a sign of 'moral decline in the inner city'.
"A knee jerk piece of legislation perhaps..."
Oh, no 'perhaps' about it. By concentrating on the dog breed, and not the dog's behaviour, or that of the owner, it was set up to fail.
I do rather wondewr if that wasn't by design...