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Two teens jailed over fatal machete attack on boy, 14, in Newcastle gang feud | UK News

Two teenagers have been jailed after being found guilty of the manslaughter of a 14-year-old boy.

Gordon Gault was stabbed on the arm with a machete as he rode on the back of a friend’s e-bike in Newcastle’s West End in November 2022. He died six days later in hospital.

The deadly attack, which also saw one of his associates slashed in the back, broke out when two rival gangs went out looking for each other.

Six teenagers went on trial at Newcastle Crown Court and were cleared of murder, but Carlos Neto, 18, of Salford, Greater Manchester, and Lawson Natty, 18, of Newbiggin Hall, Newcastle, were convicted of manslaughter.

Neto stabbed the 14-year-old, jurors heard, while Natty was the one who supplied him with the machete he had bought online.

Mr Justice Martin Spencer sentenced Neto to nine years and two months while Natty, who was born in Belgium, was sentenced to 32 months, after which he could face deportation.

The attack was the culmination of an escalating tit-for-tat exchange of violence between the two gangs.

It had begun with a rival making a “diss track” making fun of Natty’s appearance, the court heard.

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Neto led a group of six to infiltrate Elswick Park, where they were spotted by a larger group of rivals, causing them to retreat.

Gordon, armed with a baseball bat, was stabbed as he was isolated riding on the back of a friend’s speedy e-bike, then a separate clash followed in a nearby street.

During the sentencing, the judge also criticised drill music as a “pernicious genre” that he said “tends to glorify violence”.

Neto said he was inspired by rappers and their lifestyle, their money, fame, cars and watches.

He liked the rappers’ masculine image and the respect they earned, telling jurors during his trial: “Without these things, my chances of success were zero.”

“You still have a future,” Mr Justice Spencer told Neto. “Sadly, Gordon Gault does not.”

Gordon’s mother wept as she read a statement out in court, urging people not to carry knives.

“The devastation your actions cause is unimaginable.”

Gordon’s grandmother Frances Gault referred to offensive raps and remarks Neto made after the killing.

She said: “Mocking him and gloating about these actions absolutely crushed me.

“No remorse has ever been shown and I can never forgive this.”

Scarlet Blake who had ‘obsession with death’ jailed for life for murdering man | UK News

A woman who filmed herself killing a cat before putting the animal in a blender has been jailed for life for murdering a man four months later.

Scarlet Blake, 25, appeared at Oxford Crown Court on Monday after being found guilty of murder last week.

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Blake live-streamed the dissection of a family pet after watching a Netflix documentary called Don’t F*** With Cats, in which Luka Magnotta kills kittens before filming a murder.

Prosecutors said Blake, who is transgender, had a “fixation with violence” and found Jorge Martin Carreno, 30, while searching the streets of Oxford looking for someone to kill in the early hours of 25 July 2021.

Sentencing Mr Justice Chamberlain KC said Blake “had an obsession with harm and death”.

“The decision to kill was entirely yours,” he said, telling Blake, “you were completely indifferent to this suffering.”

Blake will serve a minimum term of 24 years in jail.

The body of the BMW factory worker, a Spanish national who was walking home alone after a night out with work colleagues, was found in the River Cherwell at Parson’s Pleasure around 24 hours later.

Jorge Martin Carreno. Pic: Family handout
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Jorge Martin Carreno. Pic: Family handout

Her trial heard a murder investigation was launched two years later when Blake’s former partner Ashlynn Bell, who lives in the US, told detectives Blake had confessed to killing Mr Martin Carreno using a homemade garrote.

Blake pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal damage over killing the cat but denied murdering Mr Martin Carreno by inflicting blows to his head before trying to strangle him and then putting him in the river.

Four months before his death, she used food and a crate to capture a cat and take it to her home, where she killed it.

In the video, in which Blake dissects the animal, removing the fur and skin, she says: “Here we go my little friend. Oh boy, you smell like shit. I can’t wait to put through the blender.”

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Blake filmed herself killing a cat. Pic: TVP

Prosecutors said it showed she had a “disturbing interest in what it would be like to harm a living creature”.

“It was an interest that went beyond mere fantasy,” Alison Morgan KC told jurors, who were also shown videos of Blake and a partner engaging in consensual strangulation with ligatures.

“She described herself to others as being someone who derived sexual gratification from the thought of violence and the thought of death,” said the prosecutor.

CCTV footage showed Mr Martin Carreno trying to find his way home, while Blake walked the streets, wearing a facemask and distinctive combat-style jacket with hood over her head, while carrying a rucksack.

“He died because he encountered the defendant on that night,” said Ms Morgan.

“He died because he met a person who had a fixation with violence and with knowing what it would feel like to kill someone.”

Blake, who was born in China and came to the UK aged nine, blamed Ms Bell for making her kill the cat.

She said Mr Martin Carreno was still alive when she left him at the riverbank, and that she had made up details of killing him to please her ex-partner after seeing his death in the news.

Mr Martin Carreno’s family paid tribute to “an extraordinary being full of passion and kindness” who was one of three triplet brothers.

“Today, his absence leaves a deep wound in our hearts,” they said in a statement. “His life was stolen, cutting short his projects and dreams.”

Mr Martin Carreno’s mother said her son “aspired to build a better world” and was an “incredibly good person”.

Christmas ‘party planner’ drug dealer becomes first to be jailed for possession of laughing gas canisters | UK News

A drug dealer who was caught with party bags containing canisters of laughing gas has become the first person to be jailed for possession of the class C drug since it was outlawed.

Thomas Salton, 30, from Brentwood in Essex was found with about 60 small canisters of nitrous oxide known as ‘laughing gas’, 48 one-gram bags of ketamine, and £39,000 in cash when police pulled his Range Rover over on 1 December 2023.

A further 408 nitrous oxide canisters and 965 grams of ketamine were later found at a property Salton was renting 10 miles from his home.

Salton will spend 35 months in prison.

He pleaded guilty to drug possession with intent to supply at a hearing last month and was sentenced today at Basildon Crown Court.

The ban on nitrous oxide came into force in November as part of a campaign to tackle anti-social behaviour.

Nitrous oxide, also nicknamed “hippy crack”, is now a class C drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971.

Alex Hinds, a prosecutor for CPS East of England, said: “The evidence against Thomas Salton was overwhelming and this case is an example of all parts of the justice system working together to get drugs and those who sell them off the streets.

“The change in the law coupled with the actions of the police has allowed the CPS to present the strongest case in court and put Thomas Salton out of business and into prison.

“Nitrous oxide is a dangerous drug and hopefully this first conviction will deter those thinking of buying or selling it.”

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The CPS said the ketamine was divided into bags marked with a “K” and put inside the Christmas party bags along with two canisters of nitrous oxide.

At the sentencing, the CPS said it would begin legal proceedings to recover any money Salton had obtained from his crime.

Cousins jailed over murder of Christopher McCallum McGee in South Lanarkshire | UK News

Two cousins caught on CCTV carrying out a “senseless and violent” murder have been handed life sentences.

David McMahon, 41, and William McMahon, 47, left Christopher McCallum McGee unconscious in a garden after attacking him outside a house.

A court heard David McMahon struck Mr McGee with a beer bottle across his right cheek with such force that it knocked him out.

As Mr McGee lay on the ground, William McMahon kicked him twice on the head.

The attack was stopped by Mr McGee’s friends and neighbours.

Judge Lord Young said: “Neither of you showed any compassion or concern for him as he lay there.”

Mr McGee, 36, died in hospital three days after the fatal assault in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, on 5 November 2021.

Both men had denied murder but were convicted following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.

Lord Young said: “Immediately after the attack, David McMahon said words which suggested that he had been waiting for an opportunity to attack Mr McGee but the evidence did not explore that matter further.

“With some hesitation, I will sentence you on the basis that this was not a pre-planned assault but was the result of an alcohol influenced disagreement.”

The pair were handed mandatory life sentences on Tuesday.

The judge told William McMahon: “The evidence was that you were the source of the original aggression that evening. You were drunk and spoiling for a fight.

“You delivered the kick which most likely triggered the impact brain apnoea.”

Lord Young said David McMahon rendering Mr McGee unconscious made the victim “far more vulnerable”.

He added: “I have decided that by escalating the violence that night with the use of a weapon, you bear a somewhat greater responsibility than your co-accused.”

David McMahon, who had a worse criminal record than his cousin, will have to spend at least 16 years in prison before being eligible for parole, while William McMahon was sentenced to 15 years and six months behind bars.

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The judge acknowledged that both men had expressed remorse over Mr McGee’s death.

Lord Young said: “I have read the victim impact statements from Mr McGee’s mother and his partner which make clear to me how much Mr McGee’s death has affected their lives and those who loved him.

“During his life, Mr McGee provided love and practical support for many family members, not least his own children, and they have to come to terms with losing him to such a senseless and violent attack.”

Following the court case, Detective Chief Inspector Hannah Edward said the McMahons were “facing the consequences of their actions”.

She added: “I hope that this sentence brings some degree of closure to the family and friends of Christopher and our thoughts remain with them at this difficult time.”

Man who kept dead flatmate in freezer for nearly two years jailed | UK News

A man who kept a pensioner’s body in a freezer for nearly two years has been jailed.

Damion Johnson, 53, had known 71-year-old John Wainwright for 27 years – and moved in with him into a flat in Birmingham in 2015 as his registered carer.

The pair were described by a friend as having a “strong friendship” and Johnson described Mr Wainwright as a father figure.

Derby Crown Court heard when Mr Wainwright died in September 2018, Johnson was “overcome by grief”.

On 25 September 2018, he ordered a chest freezer measuring around two feet by three feet, costing £462.

Mr Wainwright’s body was discovered almost two years later in August 2020 in the freezer on the premises of a skip company.

Johnson told relatives and friends that Mr Wainwright had died and that the funeral had already taken place, but did not inform the emergency services or obtain a death certificate.

At one stage, a friend of Mr Wainwright stayed at the flat while the pensioner’s body was stored in the freezer in the same room.

Prosecutor Darron Whitehead said: “The defendant says he was not thinking rationally and was not ready to let go of Mr Wainwright. As time passed, he had been unable to inform the authorities.”

In December 2019, the defendant was arrested for unrelated matters, and while police did not search the property, they barred Johnson from returning.

The flat was boarded up on 6 December with the freezer unplugged inside.

Several people later attended the flat to carry out safety checks and noted a strong smell which they described as “horrendous” and “unbearable”.

On 21 August 2020, a removal team took the freezer away and mistook the odour for rotting food – before Mr Wainwright’s body was found by staff at Budget Skips Services Ltd in Exhall, Warwickshire.

A post-mortem examination five days later noted signs of blunt force trauma, but Mr Whitehead said: “It was not possible to confirm or exclude natural disease as a cause or contributor to death.”

The prosecutor said from September 2018 to May 2020, Johnson also used Mr Wainwright’s bank card to buy goods and withdraw cash worth £17,000 and made 11 transfers to his bank account worth an additional £2,475.

The 53-year-old was sentenced to two years in prison on Tuesday after previously pleading guilty to preventing the lawful and decent burial of the body of Mr Wainwright, as well as three counts of fraud.

He was given concurrent six-month sentences for each of the latter charges.

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Raglan Ashton, mitigating, said Johnson had previously worked as a carer and a healthcare assistant at the Royal Derby Hospital and had an “informal agreement” with Mr Wainwright that whoever died first would still be able to access the funds which were in a joint account.

He said: “Perhaps one can understand that if one sees it against that background, perhaps it was not a callous act but an act, clearly inappropriate, of someone who was finding it very hard to come to terms with the death of Mr Wainwright.”

Jailing Johnson, of Sun Street, Derby, Judge Shaun Smith KC said preventing a burial was an “unusual offence” but that he was “not suggesting at all” that the defendant had any involvement in Mr Wainwright’s death.

He said: “Had you accepted his death and gone about it in a normal way, he would have received a good and decent burial.

“That was not what you did. You bought a chest freezer, a deliberate act on your part. You knew what you were going to do.

“Everything you did facilitated the hiding of that body. Nothing you did contributed to it being found.

“This is an offence which is so serious that the only appropriate punishment can be achieved by immediate custody.”

Aberdeen rapist Kyle Allan jailed after subjecting woman to ‘night of terror’ | UK News

A man who entered the home of a “complete stranger” and then went on to choke the woman unconscious and rape her during a life-threatening “night of terror” has been jailed for eight years.

Kyle Allan, 31, had been drinking heavily at a friend’s barbeque before going to the victim’s home in the Cove area of Aberdeen.

The 35-year-old woman, who had left her door unlocked as a family member had gone out for the evening, had settled down with a glass of wine when Allan struck.

The tyre-fitter seized her by the throat. The victim tried to fight him off by grabbing his face and beard and attempting to hit him in the groin, but Allan choked her unconscious.

Allan hit the woman on the head and body, forcibly removed her clothes and threw her to the ground before raping her.

The victim attempted to flee from her home but was assaulted and held back by Allan before he eventually left the house with his shorts still at his knees.

Prosecutor Isabella Ennis KC told judge Lord Ericht that Allan threatened to kill the woman and her family if she reported the attack to police.

The woman initially phoned a family member as well as a friend but urged them not to call emergency services as she was fearful that Allan would return.

However, the friend told her husband to dial 999 and Allan was traced and arrested the following day.

Ms Ennis said the incident has left the victim with “deep psychological trauma” and she has been unable to return home.

The incident occurred on 10 June this year.

At the High Court in Edinburgh last month, Allan pleaded guilty to a charge of rape and assaulting the woman to the danger of her life.

Allan, of Cove, was sentenced at the High Court in Dundee on Friday and was told he would have been facing 12 years behind bars had it not been for his early guilty plea.

He has also been added to the sex offenders’ register indefinitely.

Lord Ericht said Allan “entered the home of a complete stranger”.

The judge added: “You subjected her to a terrifying ordeal, grabbing her throat until she was unconscious and raping her.

“She pleaded with you and fought back bravely.”

Lord Ericht commended the woman for her bravery and praised all those who came to her aid following the attack.

The judge added: “This was a random attack involving extreme violence, a night of terror.”

Following Allan’s conviction, Police Scotland also praised the victim for her “strength throughout the investigation”.

Detective Inspector Mark Lambley added: “Kyle Allan is an extremely dangerous individual who attacked a woman in her own home.

“His actions were despicable and have had a profound effect on the woman.”

Frank McKeever: Couple who subjected widower to ‘humiliating’ death after staging filmed confession jailed for life | UK News

A couple who subjected a widower to a “painful, protracted and humiliating death” before dumping his body in a remote location have been jailed for life for his murder.

Surie Suksiri, 32, and her now ex-boyfriend Juned Sheikh, 48, have also been jailed for preventing the lawful burial of Frank McKeever whose body has still not been found.

Mr McKeever, 62, disappeared after visiting Suksiri, who was his stepdaughter, at her home in Highbury, north London, on the evening of 28 August 2021.

Judge Antony Bate said Mr McKeever had been expecting Suksiri and Sheikh to “welcome him as before and be treated with the respect any guest deserves”, however: “Events took a sinister turn in that confined residential setting.”

While he was in the home Mr McKeever was photographed in a “humiliating” position and forced to make a filmed confession.

In the video he said he assaulted Suksiri when she was a child and she “deserved to be punished”.

Mr McKeever’s family said it was “heartened” after confirmation from police that there is no evidence the allegations of abuse are true.

Prosecutor Katherine Patterson told the Old Bailey that Mr McKeever was subjected to “significant and sustained violence and suffered a painful, protracted and humiliating death” after the confession was filmed.

Ms Patterson also told the court the “precise cause” of Mr McKeever’s death was unclear.

The judge said that after the murder the couple lied about what happened and hid his body in a “wicked and sustained deceit”.

The judge said it was a “serious affront to public standards of decency” and means the family cannot lay him to rest.

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Earlier, the victim’s older brother, Dominic McKeever, said the trial was “lengthy and harrowing” and the family has been denied the chance to give “happy-go-lucky” Mr McKeever the “loving farewell” he deserves.

Reading his statement in court, he said: “In the summer of 2021, Frank embarked on a new, positive chapter in his life. He was busy making plans to move house, enjoying exploring London with his new freedom pass and had reconnected with us, his siblings, much to our happiness.

“Frank had a lot to live for. This bright future has been cruelly and casually taken away from him and from us.”

He added that the confirmation there was no evidence Mr McKeever had carried out the abuse only added to the pain and “indignity” of his death.

Mr McKeever continued: “At times it felt as if Frank was on trial.”

In mitigation, Allison Hunter KC said Suksiri was vulnerable and had a low IQ and alcohol addiction.

She said Suksiri had no desire to cause further suffering to Mr McKeever’s loved ones and would tell authorities where his body is if she could.

Surie Suksiri was jailed for a minimum term of 18 years
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Surie Suksiri was jailed for a minimum term of 18 years

Previously, the court was told Suksiri sent a 47-second video on WhatsApp to Sheikh’s sister about an hour after Mr McKeever arrived at her home on the night of his murder.

In it, Suksiri said “start” off-camera before Mr McKeever spoke on camera in a “flat tone” and said he assaulted her when she was six.

After the video was made, the defendants killed Mr McKeever, disposing of his body a few days later, the court was told.

Giving evidence, Suksiri denied harming her stepfather and blamed her partner for injuring him with repeated elbow blows.

After she realised he was dead, she admitted dumping Mr McKeever’s body but could only remember it was beside a motorway because Sheikh had driven them to the spot.

She told jurors they dragged the body out of the car and Sheikh covered it with branches.

Sheikh refused to answer questions after his arrest and chose not to give evidence during the trial.

Juned Sheikh was given a minimum term of 24 years
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Juned Sheikh was given a minimum term of 24 years

Mr McKeever’s disappearance was noticed because he was due to complete a house swap with a couple, who reported him missing after contact stopped.

Suksiri claimed not to have spoken to her stepfather for 20 years.

But on 2 September she pawned three of his rings for £200, jurors were told.

Her sister-in-law raised concerns with social services, who contacted police after Suksiri told her about the recorded confession and sent her the video on WhatsApp.

The court was played conversations Suksiri had with an undercover police officer last year after being released under investigation.

They detailed a clear confession to the murder with Sheikh, the prosecution said.

Suksiri and Sheikh, from Camberwell in south London, denied the charges against them.

After their convictions earlier in November, Sheikh reacted angrily and told jurors to “rot in hell”.

Sheikh, who had 16 previous convictions, including for violence and robbery, was given a minimum term of 24 years, with Suksiri told she will spend at least 18 years in prison.

Man jailed for 10 years after his son was hit by car while crossing the M62 | UK News

A father has been sentenced to a decade behind bars for manslaughter after his autistic son was killed when they fled the scene of a crash across a busy motorway.

Callum Rycroft, 12, was hit by a car while he tried to run across the M62 motorway with his father Matthew Rycroft – a man described as “the person he trusted the most”.

Leeds Crown Court heard Rycroft, 37, had been drink-driving on 5 August when he hit a barrier and overturned his Audi Q5 on the slip road to Hartsmead Moor Services, near Huddersfield.

Rycroft and Callum, who had been in the passenger seat, left the vehicle and could be seen on CCTV walking along the stretch of motorway for almost a mile before crossing to the central reservation.

At one point, the court heard, Rycroft was seen falling over and helped up by his son.

Rycroft then carried on to the hard shoulder, followed by Callum, who was then hit by a vehicle.

He kept walking over to the other side, without looking back for his son, and was found hiding in a bush 400 yards away by police.

Rycroft was sentenced last week to 10 years in prison, after previously admitting manslaughter, dangerous driving, and failing to provide a specimen.

The Crown Prosecution Service said Callum had no speed awareness, due to his disability.

Claire Bancroft, the boy’s mother who has since left Rycroft over the incident, said Callum “would follow” his father “everywhere”, and “worshipped the ground he walked on”.

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In a victim impact statement read out in court, Ms Bancroft said: “Callum was with Matt – someone he trusted the most. Someone who should have kept him safe and brought him home.

“Callum died as a result of Matt’s actions – something I can’t forgive him for.”

She added Callum was born with spina bifida, and diagnosed with autism at the age of four.

“I saw a bright future for Callum, I just know he would have achieved anything, and I am certain he would have got a good job, he would have been so good with anything practical.

“What makes matters worse, if that could be possible, is that my children have lost their dad as well as their brother and they know Callum is not here because of their dad. Matt has torn the family apart, he has hurt a lot of people, but mostly he has let Callum down, all because of his selfishness.”

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Parents asked him to stay over – but Rycroft refused

The court was told Rycroft had been to visit his parents in Huddersfield with Callum, then cut the grass at a local cricket club, and began to drink and socialise in the clubhouse.

CCTV footage showed Rycroft being “demonstrably unsteady on his feet” as he left around 9.10pm, with the court hearing Rycroft’s father thought his son was not fit to drive and offered to let him stay for the night – but Rycroft declined.

His parents called him to tell him to stop, the court was told, and could hear Callum crying saying his dad wouldn’t stop.

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Matthew Harding, mitigating, said there was “so much that was good about Matthew Rycroft’s relationship with Callum”.

“He will have to live with the utterly tragic consequences of his actions that night for the rest of his life,” he told the court.

Rycroft appeared on a video link from prison, and was seen crying as he sat with his head bowed.

Sentencing Rycroft, Judge Guy Kearl KC, the Recorder of Leeds, said: “Not content with placing yourself, Callum and other road users in danger by the standard of your driving, you attempted to escape the scene by running away.

“You deliberately placed Callum in a situation where his chances of another safe crossing were slim at best.”

Former doctor Hossam Metwally who was jailed for drugging partner during exorcisms ordered to pay patient he secretly recorded | UK News

A former doctor who was jailed for voyeurism and injecting his partner with drugs during a series of exorcisms, has been ordered to pay more than £50,000 to a woman he secretly recorded while she was undressed during treatment.

Hossam Metwally used hidden cameras to film the woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, after asking her to change into a medical gown before leaving the room.

The offences came to light in 2021, before Metwally was jailed for 14 and a half years for injecting his partner with drugs during a series of exorcisms.

Metwally was convicted of endangering Kelly Wilson’s life, leaving her close to death with multiple organ failure.

He made dozens of video recordings of himself administering fluids through a cannula to Ms Wilson while chanting as part of a “dangerous perversion” of the Islamic Ruqyah ritual, Sheffield Crown Court previously heard.

Before sentencing, Metwally admitted two unrelated offences of voyeurism by taking pictures and video of two female patients, without their knowledge and in a state of undress, during treatment sessions.

One of these women brought a misuse of private information claim against him at the High Court in London earlier this year.

On Friday, Mrs Justice Steyn ruled the woman was entitled to damages of £51,092, including money for her future
psychological treatment.

Metwally, the court heard, would ask the woman to get changed into a medical gown before leaving the room but still recording her on hidden cameras.

She said she was “totally shocked by what has happened to me”, that she felt “violated and vulnerable” and said that her “trust in people has gone”.

In her judgment, Mrs Justice Steyn said: “The claimant was owed an obligation of trust”, something that was breached “repeatedly”.

The judge said: “He [Metwally] obtained, retained and edited the footage for his own sexual gratification, continuing to do so years after the appointments.”

His actions left the woman with PTSD, the judge said, adding she “struggled to leave the house and had experienced a recurrence of her depression”.

Metwally did not attend the hearing and was not represented.

In May last year, a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service panel concluded he should be erased from the medical register after it ruled his fitness to practise was impaired because of his convictions.

Man jailed after girl, 6, savaged by his pack of out-of-control dogs in Manchester | UK News

A man whose pack of dogs savaged a six-year-old girl has been jailed.

Bernard Valentine, of Ackers Lane, Carrington, was sentenced to 49 months behind bars after the the attack, which involved his pocket bulldogs.

On Sunday 26 March this year, the young girl walked to her friend’s house on Ackers Lane.

As she walked past a property where Valentine was staying in his camper van outside, she was set upon by a pack of six dogs that were being kept in the back garden and in the defendant’s camper van.

The girl’s older sister tried to wrestle the dogs off, but they only ran away when her mother picked her up.

She suffered serious injuries to her face, scalp, hand, abdomen, arms, legs, back and shoulder, and has since had surgery.

Valentine was arrested two days later when his van was traced to Fallowfield in south Manchester and the dogs were subsequently seized.

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He was also arrested in connection with a second attack on the same road, when a man walking his dalmatian was injured after being set upon by the dogs.

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Valentine was also banned from owning dogs for life and has a 10-year restraining order after pleading guilty to eight charges of being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control and possession of Class B drugs.