User:ExplodingCabbage/sandbox

2000–2009
{| class="wikitable sortable" ! Date !! Victim's name, sex, and age !Victim's age !Victim's gender!! Dog type (Number) !Location!! Circumstances
 * 7 November 2000
 * Kirsty Ross
 * 25
 * Female
 * Doberman (1)
 * Helston, Cornwall, England
 * Ross had had an epileptic seizure and her dog attempted to pick her up by the scruff of the neck as a mother dog would lift a puppy. There was no evidence of a 'savaging' of the victim, and the victim's 22-month-old daughter was in the same room unharmed. The dog was euthanized.
 * 16 May 2003
 * George Dinham
 * 45
 * Male
 * Staffordshire Bull Terrier (1)
 * London, England
 * Dinham was found dead in his home, mauled to death by his pet, possibly after an epileptic seizure. Neighbours claimed the same dog attacked a child a few months before, though it was suggested that the dog might have merely jumped at the girl, and the scratches sustained were from falling over. The victim and dog were said to be inseparable, and the dog was known to nip at his owner to bring him around from seizures before. The dog was later put down.
 * 11 July 2005
 * Liam Eames
 * 1
 * Male
 * American Bulldog (1)
 * Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
 * The family's two dogs were normally kept outside, but Liam's father, Christopher (who was at work at the time of the attack) had let them in because it was hot outside. Liam's mother, Jacqueline, was sitting with him on the floor when he crawled towards the dog and it attacked him.
 * American Bulldog (1)
 * Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
 * The family's two dogs were normally kept outside, but Liam's father, Christopher (who was at work at the time of the attack) had let them in because it was hot outside. Liam's mother, Jacqueline, was sitting with him on the floor when he crawled towards the dog and it attacked him.

Jacqueline was unable to free the baby and the dog only let go once the family's other dog intervened, at which point she ran outside with the baby shouting for help. The child was pronounced dead an hour later from head and neck wounds.

The dog had been acquired from a rescue, and had a “nervous temperament,” but was otherwise fine around the children. It was seized along with the other household dog and was slated to be euthanised. The other dog was returned to the family.
 * 24 September 2006
 * Cadey-Lee Deacon
 * <1
 * Female
 * Rottweilers (2)
 * Leicester, East Midlands, England
 * Deacon was attacked when her mother and her partner were moving furniture in the living quarters of a pub. The two guard dogs, which were usually kept in a kennel on the pub's roof, entered through a fire escape door that was left open for 15 minutes and took the unsupervised 5-month-old baby from her Moses basket and out to the roof where they mauled her. The dogs, Bruno and Bessie, were owned by the partner's mother (the licensee of the pub) and were put down soon after the incident.
 * Deacon was attacked when her mother and her partner were moving furniture in the living quarters of a pub. The two guard dogs, which were usually kept in a kennel on the pub's roof, entered through a fire escape door that was left open for 15 minutes and took the unsupervised 5-month-old baby from her Moses basket and out to the roof where they mauled her. The dogs, Bruno and Bessie, were owned by the partner's mother (the licensee of the pub) and were put down soon after the incident.

The pub where the attack took place was located opposite a school. Local residents familiar with the dogs described them as "very aggressive", "powerful", and "vicious", and said people had been unhappy about having to walk their children past the pub to school and feared the dogs would jump down from the roof and attack.
 * 1 January 2007
 * Ellie Lawrenson
 * 5
 * Female
 * American Pit Bull Terrier (1)
 * St Helens, Merseyside, England
 * Lawrenson's grandmother, after smoking ten cannabis joints and drinking two bottles of wine, let the 75-pound dog inside the house where it attacked and killed the girl. The girl received 72 separate injuries, mostly to her head and neck, and the floor was "awash with blood" when police arrived. The dog was shot dead at the scene by a police marksman.
 * Lawrenson's grandmother, after smoking ten cannabis joints and drinking two bottles of wine, let the 75-pound dog inside the house where it attacked and killed the girl. The girl received 72 separate injuries, mostly to her head and neck, and the floor was "awash with blood" when police arrived. The dog was shot dead at the scene by a police marksman.

The dog had a reputation locally for aggression. It weighed 34kg, spent its time bouncing on a trampoline in the back garden while carrying large pieces of wood, and was described by a dog specialist within the Met as "fantastically well conditioned" and of "immeasurable power". Previously, the dog had attacked the victim's aunt without provocation, leaving her needing stitches to her leg, and, on a separate occasion had attacked a Jack Russell dog.

Kiel Simpson, the victim's uncle and owner of the dog, was jailed on possession of an illegal dog and banned from keeping dogs for five years. The grandmother was charged with manslaughter but was acquitted. Almost 200 banned dogs were surrendered the following month when Merseyside Police offered an amnesty.
 * 28 December 2007
 * Archie-Lee Hirst
 * 1
 * Male
 * Rottweiler
 * Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England
 * Hirst was being carried by a 7-year-old girl when the dog attacked, wrenching the boy from her arms. He was dragged into the garden of his grandparents' house and mauled. Though the victim's aunt attempted to fight the dog away, the victim was 'savaged to death'. Both the victim's parents were at a neighbour's house and didn't witness the incident. The dog was shot dead by police at the scene. The grandparents had only acquired the dog 6 months prior and were said to never exercise it, which likely added to its agitation.
 * 27 January 2008
 * James Rehill
 * 78
 * Male
 * Rottweiler
 * Newham, London, England
 * Rehill was taking the dog for its morning walk when he fell over in the street. At first, the dog licked and pawed its owner. Subsequent events, and Rehill's cause of death, are disputed.
 * Newham, London, England
 * Rehill was taking the dog for its morning walk when he fell over in the street. At first, the dog licked and pawed its owner. Subsequent events, and Rehill's cause of death, are disputed.

Initial media reports, based on eyewitness accounts, asserted that the dog attacked, tearing chunks of flesh from his face, and that this was what caused Rehill's death. The dog only let go once sprayed with a fire extinguisher and was then shot by the police.

Per other witness accounts, the dog was merely trying to help the owner, not attacking him. Furthermore, a post-mortem revealed that he had had a stroke immediately before his collapse, and his inquest ruled that his death was due to natural causes.

The RSPCA complained that the ruling that he had died of natural causes did not get as widely reported as the initial "attack" had been, and cited the case as an example of a broader phenomenon that initial media reports about dog attacks are unreliable.

Rehill died at Royal London Hospital. He had owned the dog for 10 years, and it had allegedly never acted aggressively before. 4 February 2009 † 21 September 2009 †
 * 20 January 2009
 * 20 January 2009
 * Stephen Hudspeth
 * 33
 * Male
 * Staffordshire Bull Terrier
 * Bishop Auckland, County Durham, England
 * Hudspeth was bitten on the elbow while walking to work and later died from septicaemia.
 * rowspan="2" | 8 February 2009
 * rowspan="2" |Jaden Joseph Mack
 * rowspan="2" |<1
 * rowspan="2" |Male
 * Staffordshire Bull Terrier (1)
 * rowspan="2" |Ystrad Mynach, Caerphilly, Wales
 * rowspan="2" |The two dogs dragged the three-and-a-half-month-old Mack off a table whilst his grandmother napped, and attacked him. The grandmother discovered the dead baby and was shrieking, drawing attention from a neighbour who came over to see what was going on. The neighbour said the baby had severe injuries to his neck and was dead. Both dogs were said to previously acted friendly towards the infant. Both dogs were put down.
 * Jack Russell Terrier (1)
 * 1 May 2009
 * Andrew Walker
 * 21
 * Male
 * Alsatians (2)
 * Blackpool, Lancashire, England
 * Walker was one of two men who were trying to separate two dogs that were fighting in their backyard. Both dogs turned on the victim, who received 51 bites in the attack and lost four pints of blood. The dogs were euthanized at the request of the owner, who was known to have owned dangerous dogs before. His previous Rottweilers had attacked a woman and killed her poodle, but he was not banned from owning animals.
 * 18 June 2009
 * Blackpool, Lancashire, England
 * Walker was one of two men who were trying to separate two dogs that were fighting in their backyard. Both dogs turned on the victim, who received 51 bites in the attack and lost four pints of blood. The dogs were euthanized at the request of the owner, who was known to have owned dangerous dogs before. His previous Rottweilers had attacked a woman and killed her poodle, but he was not banned from owning animals.
 * 18 June 2009
 * 18 June 2009
 * Damian Holden
 * 35
 * Male
 * Weimaraner (1)
 * Wales
 * While Holden was trying to put up a tent during a camping holiday with his wife and son in Wales, his dog Eric nipped his hand. (The coroner would later rule that the nip had no "malicious intent" behind it.) Holden developed sepsis as a result of a virus in the dog's saliva, suffered multiple organ failures, had his feet amputated, and finally died three months later in hospital in Crewe, Cheshire.
 * 30 November 2009
 * Jon Paul Massey
 * 4
 * Male
 * Pit Bull Type (1)
 * Liverpool, England
 * Massey was attacked in his house by a large dog. His grandmother tried to protect him, sustaining injuries herself. The dog was shot in the front garden by responding police. It had been reported that they were breeding dogs at the house. The victim's uncle pleaded guilty to three counts under the Dangerous Dogs Act and was jailed for four months. He was found to be breeding pit bulls. The victim's grandmother admitted one charge of keeping a dangerous dog and was given a four-month jail term, suspended for 18 months, and was banned from owning a dog again.
 * 11 February 2014
 * Ava-Jayne Corless
 * data-sort-value=0.917|11 months
 * Female
 * Pit bull terrier (1)
 * Blackburn, Lancashire, England
 * Corless was attacked and killed by a 126 lb dog as her mother lay sleeping with her boyfriend, the dog's owner. The 126 lb dog was determined to be a pit bull terrier by experts and a veterinary surgeon and was put down after the attack. The dog's owner was jailed for 18 weeks and prohibited from owning dogs for 5 years after he was found guilty of owning a prohibited breed. The dog was named Snoop but was known in the neighbourhood by the name "Killer" as it killed a neighbour's cat two years prior.
 * Blackburn, Lancashire, England
 * Corless was attacked and killed by a 126 lb dog as her mother lay sleeping with her boyfriend, the dog's owner. The 126 lb dog was determined to be a pit bull terrier by experts and a veterinary surgeon and was put down after the attack. The dog's owner was jailed for 18 weeks and prohibited from owning dogs for 5 years after he was found guilty of owning a prohibited breed. The dog was named Snoop but was known in the neighbourhood by the name "Killer" as it killed a neighbour's cat two years prior.