...unlike the vicious mutts it was intended to sort out:
A dog attacked a 12-year-old boy, leaving his ear "hanging off", a court has heard.
The pet, named Storm, mauled the child at Stephen Plunkett's home in Westbury Place, Halifax, on 3 August.
They are never called 'Spot' or 'Fido', are they?
Bradford Crown Court heard how the animal, which was usually muzzled, pushed the boy over and stood over him before biting him on the ear twice.
I wonder why it was 'usually muzzled'? That's often a condition of a previous court ruling.
Plunkett, 47, admitted having a dog which caused injury while dangerously out of control.
He was handed a 12-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, and ordered to carry out 180 hours of unpaid community work.
Judge Jonathan Rose said the dog, described in court as an American bulldog, would need to be destroyed.
There's a surprise!
Plunkett's barrister, Laura McBride, said he had made "a lapse of judgement" and was full of remorse.
Yes. Because he's got caught.
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'Remorse through being caught' is a relatively common occurrence, though given the low rate of crime-solving these days it is far less common than 'boasting in the pub afterwards about what I got away with.'
Judge Jonathan Rose said the dog, described in court as an American bulldog, would need to be destroyed.
Tells us all we need to know about the owner. Any responsible owner would have had the dog destroyed then and there. The dog bit a child /end of. "Ken, if I had killed a little kid, accidentally or otherwise, I wouldn't have thought twice. I'd killed myself on the fucking spot. On the fucking spot. I would've stuck the gun in me mouth on the fucking spot!"
"'Remorse through being caught' is a relatively common occurrence..."
Yet our wise and learned members of the bench so rarely recognise it...
"Tells us all we need to know about the owner. Any responsible owner would have had the dog destroyed then and there. "
Yup but these things are rarely owned by such.
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