Attack dog’s keeper must pay just £100

postman down. In significant pain, he was unable to free his arm and the dog would not let go.

The postman started screaming for help and several neighbours came to try to help him. One person hit the dog with the blunt side of a shovel, but the dog only bit down more forcefully. It was only when the sharp end was used that the dog let go.

Neighbours used a towel to stem the blood from Mr Park-Paul’s arm and used a belt as a tourniquet. He was given morphine by paramedics and taken to Huddersfield Royal Infirmary before being transferred to Bradford Royal Infirmary’s plastic surgery department.

Defending, Anastasi Tasou said the dog had been in Shaw’s living room for the past 10 months and there had been no incidents of any kind. It had never jumped over the gate and the only time it had got out was when the gate was accidentally left open and on that occasions it had not attacked anyone.

He said Shaw was unaware of an incident in 2013 when Bruiser attacked a postman on private property.

Mr Tasou said when Shaw heard the screams he immediately went to help and did all he could to inflict pain on the dog to make him let go. Mr Park-Paul had said the dog had seemed to fly into the air during the attack, which was the result of Shaw kicking it in the chest. “He is to be commended in doing what he did,” said Mr Tasou. At the hearing Shaw also pleaded guilty to a separate offence of theft which happened two days before Christmas when he stole six bottles of spirits worth £137 from Morrisons at Waterloo. On his arrest, he admitted six other similar thefts from shops.

Mr Tasou said Shaw has been addicted to class A drugs since 2001 – an addiction stemming from the death of his mother. Since 2010 he had also lost two brothers and his father. He now wanted to get rid of his addiction. HAPPY Valley writer Sally Wainwright visited her native Yorkshire to collect an honorary degree.

Sally, from Huddersfield, was given the degree from the University of York, where she studied English.

She has also previously been given the accolade from the University of Huddersfield.

The Bafta award-winning screenwriter, right, most recently wrote a biographical BBC drama based on the Bronte sisters called To Walk Invisible.