Musings and Snippets from a recently retired JP. I served for 31 years, mostly in west London. I was Chairman of my Bench for some years, and a member of the National Bench Chairmen's Forum All cases are based on real ones, but anonymised and composited. All opinions are those of one or more individuals. JPs swear to enforce the law of the land, whether or not they approve of it. Nothing on here constitutes legal advice.
Sunday, August 05, 2007
They Are Still About
The infamous Dangerous Dogs Act was passed in 1991 in a Parliamentary panic about a number of vicious attacks that had taken place. Among other things it required the neutering of pit-bull and other fighting types, so by now the breed should more or less have died out. It didn't work though: there were recently arrests in respect of ownership of fighting-type dogs in, I seem to recall, Liverpool, and quite recently a man was arrested in West London after more than twenty pit-bulls were found in his one-bedroom maisonette in tiny cages. Some were young puppies, some were adult dogs, many bearing scars or even fresh wounds from fighting.
The man got six months, and the court ordered the destruction of the dogs, but no doubt there will be more in the future.
Can you imagine what the smell must have been like in that maisonette?
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