Yob who set powerful American Bully dog on innocent victim in savage unprovoked attack jailed

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  1. God, imagine having a dog like that set on you because you waved to your neighbour and they beeped their car horn back in reply.

    Glad to see an actual punishment although I think a lifelong ban on owning a dog is more appropriate than 10 years.

  2. Warrington Worldwide is not a domain I would have thought existed!

    Up there with Global Wigan, International Runcorn, and Prestatyn Multinational

  3. They are being bought as legal weapons. You cannot carry a gun or knife openly to threaten people, however these dogs are currently legal to own and so people are buying them and training them to attack to get around that. They can kill or leave lifelong injuries in full-grown adults. Thugs love the idea of that and so will happily buy a Bully XL to look hard.

  4. Note that he was also charged with GBH with intent (for kicking the victim in the head), which is where the jail sentence will have come from because the max for having an out of control dog which causes injury is 5 years. Had he not kicked him there’s a good chance he’d have got much less than that.

  5. >He had owned the dog at the time but was later offered some money from some travellers for it and does not know where it is now.

    Fucks sake, that’s up there with the dog ate my homework in the pantheon of weak excuses

  6. >Mr Walsh had told the court that the incident happened about 9.30 pm on January 6 this year

    >Neighbours came to help and Jepson and the dog ran away. The defendant left behind his bank card, keys and a hat,” said Mr Walsh.

    >Jepson was arrested on April 19 and said he could not recollect the incident. He said he had been holding the dog but claimed it was not his. He said it had “a lovely temperament.”

    >He had owned the dog at the time but was later offered some money from some travellers for it and does not know where it is now.

    Why did it take 3 months to get an arrest? Why wasn’t he even questioned in the intervening 3 months?

    In that 3 months he was able to sell the dog to some travellers who are probably terrorising people up and down the country with it, or they just abandoned it somewhere when it got too difficult.

    And the temperament – every Bully XL I’ve personally mey has a brilliant temperament, and is obscenely well trained, because their owners are somewhat responsible – although with one or two of them I’d possibly believe that they simply wanted better control over ordering it to attack.

    I’ve never met a pit-type that isn’t a great temperament, with me…

    I was asked to look after my neighbour’s staffy, you’d think he wouldn’t hurt a fly, one of the gentlest dogs I’ve ever seen. The guys mother was elderly and very frail, and you could tell the dog was raised around her because he’d try to cuddle up but not actually put any weight on you.

    The last day I was looking after him I didn’t have a good grip on the lead as I opened the door and he spotted a Bully XL across the road.

    He bolted out of the door and across the road, almost got flattened by a delivery van, and started savaging this Bully XL that was over 3 times his size. Meanwhile the Bully is just trying to get away and looking to it’s owner for permission to defend itself.

    Turns out, this little, gentle, staffy had attacked this guy and his Bully XL 4 times previously, the dog nearly lost his ear and and eye because of him.

    After that incident, I have a healthy distrust for all dogs.

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