{"id":727991,"date":"2026-01-29T06:33:48","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T06:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/727991\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T06:33:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T06:33:48","slug":"dog-stabbed-in-sheffield-after-altercation-police-statement-in-full","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/727991\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog stabbed in Sheffield &#8216;after altercation&#8217; &#8211; police statement in full"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police have released CCTV images of the man<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The man police want to speak with\" loading=\"eager\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/0_Man-Dog-Stabbed-SYP.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"The man police want to speak with\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">The man police want to speak with(Image: SYP)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Police want to speak to a man after a dog was stabbed during an altercation between two men in a <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.examinerlive.co.uk\/all-about\/sheffield\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">Sheffield<\/a> suburb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.examinerlive.co.uk\/all-about\/south-yorkshire-police\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">South Yorkshire Police<\/a> confirmed that an altercation had occurred between two men in Spital Hall in the city centre on December 19, 2024. One of the men owned a dog. It is alleged that one of the men pulled out a knife and <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.examinerlive.co.uk\/all-about\/crime\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">stabbed the dog<\/a> in its neck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">A dog handler attended and seized the dog. The police took the dog to the vets and it remains in police kennels where it is recovering well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The man who police would like to speak to is described as black, of average build and is around 5ft 11ins tall. He has black Afro hair with shaved sides.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Use investigation number 14\/218532\/25 when contacting police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">Get all the latest and breaking Sheffield news straight to your inbox by <\/strong><a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.examinerlive.co.uk\/newsletter-preference-centre\/?view=Solus&amp;mailingListId=11e3a255-9202-43b5-8471-cfbf02dcd578&amp;utm_source=solusarticle\" rel=\"follow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"\"><strong class=\"Strong_strong__e2x35\">signing up to our newsletter here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have released CCTV images of the man The man police want to speak with(Image: SYP) Police want&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":727992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8817],"tags":[748,188,393,4884,1620,59157,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-727991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sheffield","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-sheffield","13":"tag-south-yorkshire-police","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115976999159120962","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727991","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=727991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/727992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}