Home Secretary Suella Braverman stated she was searching for recommendation on whether or not the breed may very well be banned after footage emerged of a canine attacking an 11-year-old woman.
By Tomos Evans, Wales reporter, and Samuel Osborne, information reporter
Monday 11 September 2023 23:09, UK
The mom of a four-year-old woman attacked by an XL bully crossbreed has stated the “harmful” canine must be banned.
Luna Hobson was left with “fairly vital accidents” to her face after she was attacked by the canine in Nuneaton in April.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman stated on Sunday she had commissioned “pressing recommendation” on banning the breed.
Her assertion got here after footage emerged of a canine attacking an 11-year-old woman in Birmingham, whereas police confirmed two males had been taken to hospital after being bitten.
An proprietor of an XL bully has defended the breed however known as for harder guidelines on canine possession.
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Luna’s mom, Amy, instructed Sky News the canine was locked upstairs at a good friend’s home however managed to get out and assault her daughter.
“He had opened the door and are available down the steps, so I put my hand out to stroke him – simply as I all the time have executed, by no means had an issue – then Luna put her left hand out to stroke him and say hiya, after which he pushed her to the bottom after which he began attacking her face,” she stated.
“When he pushed her to the bottom I believed he had pushed her accidentally and he was licking her face. It was solely once I heard her scream, I regarded down and I truly noticed the canine biting her.
“That’s once I began getting the canine off her, I began hitting him, punching him, I kicked him, I twisted his ears, I did all the pieces to get him off.”
She stated Luna wanted surgical procedure on the facet of her face.
Ms Hobson stated she thinks XL bully dogs must be banned, including: “They are harmful dogs. They should not protected round youngsters in any respect.”
Mum of boy killed by canine asks why ban hasn’t been thought-about
The mum of a boy killed by an XL bully canine has questioned why Ms Braverman had not taken motion sooner.
Jack Lis, 10, died after he was attacked by the canine known as Beast whereas enjoying with a good friend at a home close to Caerphilly, South Waleson 8 November 2021.
Two individuals had been jailed final June after admitting to being in command of the canine on the time.
Jack’s mom, Emma Whitfield, has been campaigning for brand new canine laws within the UK since her son’s demise.
She stated it was “loopy” how politicians had been “popping out of the woodwork” after the video went viral.
In a submit on X, previously often known as Twitter, Ms Whitfield requested: “Where had been you when my son was killed?
“Where had been you when different harmless individuals had been killed? Where had been you once I was at parliament asking for change? Nowhere.”
She stated if the federal government was planning on doing one thing then “please do it”.
“It appears none of these in cost who may make modifications wished to take heed to the victims’ households prior to now,” she added.
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In a tribute launched after Jack’s demise, his household stated their lives would by no means be the identical with out him.
He was described because the “sweetest of boys” who can be “endlessly in our hearts”.
