What's There To 'Assess'..?

A spokesman for West Midlands Police said: 'We were called to Gallagher Retail Park in Coventry on Monday June 6 to reports a child had been bitten by a dog. The seven-year-old and her mother who suffered bruising were treated at the scene by paramedics.

'The dog, a German shepherd was seized under Section 3 of the Dangerous Dog Act. An investigation will now take place and the dog's behaviour will be assessed.'

A sustained attack on a child and then, when the child was finally pulled from its jaws, on the mother who leaped in to defend her child, should have seen it taken back to Pets At Home to be destoyed by a vet then and there. Or shot in front of the useless owner by a police marksman.

But no, it gets to sit in expensive kennels for weeks. We're mad in this country.