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Family handoutA person has appeared in court docket going through a sequence of harmful canine offences after a grandmother was fatally attacked by XL bullies.
Esther Martin, 68, was visiting a property in Jaywick, close to Clacton-on-Sea in Essex, on 3 February when she was killed.
Ashley Warren, 40, is alleged to have been accountable for the “dangerously uncontrolled” canine known as Beauty and Bear, Colchester Magistrates’ Court heard.
The defendant, beforehand of Hillman Avenue, Jaywick, entered no plea to the costs and can seem earlier than Chelmsford Crown Court on 19 September.
Jamie Niblock/BBCThe canine have been destroyed on the scene by attending officers from Essex Police.
Mr Warren was the primary particular person to be charged with associated offences after the XL bully breed was banned in England on 1 February.
During the transient listening to earlier, Mr Warren, now of Walnut Road, Leyton, east London, entered no plea to expenses of failing to make sure the canine’ welfare, having custody of combating canine and possessing a knife.
An inquest listening to on 22 February was advised Ms Martin was discovered unresponsive inside a property in Hillman Avenue and had sustained “unsurvivable” canine chew wounds.
Her medical reason behind loss of life was recorded as “canine chew wounds to the higher proper limb”.
Richard Knights/BBCSpeaking in February, Ch Supt Stuart Weaver thanked members of the general public who “bravely tried to avoid wasting Esther earlier than our officers arrived on scene”.
“What you probably did was massively brave and a mirrored image of the values of the neighborhood of Jaywick,” he stated.
