Dog ban after pets attacked three times

Court: Terrier savaged Pekingese and rottweiler bit passers-by

A man whose out-of-control terrier and rottweiler savaged a family pet to death and bit two people has been banned from keeping dogs for a year.

One of Andrew Hindes’s animals will also be put down after a sheriff heard they launched three attacks while off their leads. His Staffordshire bull terrier Roxykilled a tiny Pekingese – also named Roxy – while she was being walked by her owner in Aberdeen’s Nellfield Place.

And his rottweiler Gally bit Susan Noble on the bottom and Garreth Dunnett on the body.

Both were walking to allotments beside Nellfield Place near the city centre when they were attacked in separate incidents.

The two victims suffered puncture wounds.

Sheriff Noel McPartlin ordered that Gally be destroyed by a vet within the next fortnight.

But Hindes’s Staffie Roxy wasspared a similar fate after his agent, solicitor Mike Monro, pointed out that the maximum penalty which could be imposed on someone when their dog destroys another one is a £500 fine.

Aberdeen Sheriff Court heard that the bull terrier had been allowed to run loose when it approached Richard Lyon and his daughter Ruby while they were walking their two dogs on July 3 last year.

Fiscal depute Stephanie Ross said Roxy ran up to the Pekingese and grabbed her in his mouth before shaking her violently until she stopped moving.

And while Ruby cried hysterically, 27- year- old Hindes appeared from his house and prised open his dog’s mouth.

Miss Ross said Roxy was left motionless. After taking the dog to the vet, Mr Lyon was given the devastating newsthathis pethad apunctured spine. Shedied about an hour later.

Mr Monro told the sheriff that “despite the disgust of the public” the maximumsentencewhichcould be imposed when a dog de- stroyed another one was a fine of £500.

Sentencing Hindes, of 21b Nellfield Place, Sheriff McPartlin said: “It does seem that I will have to make an order for destruction of Gally.”

The sheriff ordered Hindes to carry out 150 hours of unpaid work within the next six months.

He also disqualified him from owning a dog for the next year.

ORDER: Andrew Hindes with Roxy, left, and Olly. He has been banned from keeping dogs for a year