Pair jailed after boy killed in caravan by American bulldog

A MOTHER whose nine-year-old son was mauled to death by a “dangerous” American bulldog has been jailed along with the animal’s owner.

Frankie Macritchie, from Plymouth, died while on holiday at Tencreek Holiday Park in Looe, Cornwall, in April last year. He had been staying at a caravan in the park with his mother, Tawney Willis, 31, and her friend Sadie Totterdell, 29, who had brought her dog Winston, an American bulldog cross Staffordshire bull terrier, to the site.

On April 12, the women spent the evening partying at the site’s social club and in a caravan.

Frankie was left alone with Winston, who had previously bitten another child, in the early hours.

Truro Crown Court heard Willis went to check on her son about twoand-a-half hours later and found him fatally injured.

Totterdell, who admitted owning a dangerously out-of-control dog, was jailed for three years, while Willis, who admitted child neglect, was given two years in prison.