Mr Griffiths described how he had been in a cafe with his children and heard a “commotion outside” with “horns blowing, people shouting and screaming”. <\/p>\n
The former Welsh Guard feared there had been a terrorist attack or major incident, so ran out and saw a woman lying on the floor with a dog “dragging her around” by the head.<\/p>\n
It was a “large, stocky, silver chocolatey” dog attacking Ms Begum in front of her children and, after its muzzle slipped off, Mr Griffiths feared things could escalate further out of control. <\/p>\n
As he moved closer, the dog went for him, and he said he “moved out the way and the dog missed – but at that stage I realised just how potentially dangerous that task was”.<\/p>\n
“[I] ran up there, grabbed the dog and tried to get the dog off her as best as I could,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I was already in the middle of it, so I couldn’t let go of the dog. I kept hold and calmed it down again.”<\/p>\n
He was also able to put the dog’s muzzle back on. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Griffiths described how he had been in a cafe with his children and heard a “commotion outside”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-617133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115676074724345685","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}