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Apr 4, 2024 · Billy Leadley, who was also known as GSK or Green Street Kennels, entered a guilty plea part-way through the trial to one offence of causing unnecessary suffering to a dog by failing to provide...
Jun 3, 2024 · Personal trainer Billy Leadley, 38, who had a dog-fighting pit at his home in Bambers Green, Essex, was jailed for a total of four years for 12 offences.
- Telegraph Reporters
- Introduction
- Evidential Considerations – Dogs Bred For Fighting
- Evidential Considerations – Dogs Dangerously Out of Control
- Public Interest Considerations
- Selection of Charges
- Sentencing
This prosecution guidance aims to assist prosecutors with the relevant legislation, evidential and public interest considerations and choice of charges applicable to prohibited dogs and dogs dangerously out of control. The primary legislation under consideration is the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 although other provisions are addressed under the select...
Section 1 Dangerous Dogs Act 1991(the 1991 Act) creates two offences. One concerns the possession or custody of specified dogs bred for fighting: section 1(3). The second concerns breeding, selling and other acts concerning dogs bred for fighting: section 1(2).
Under section 3 Dangerous Dogs Act 1991, if any dog is dangerously out of control in any place, including all private property, the owner, or person for the time being in charge of the dog, is guilty of a summary offence. It is for the prosecution to prove that an act or omission by the defendant, with or without fault, to more than a minimal degre...
If there is sufficient evidence to prosecute an offence under the 1991 Act, prosecutors should go on to consider the public interest considerations set out in the Code for Crown Prosecutors. It has never been the rule that a prosecution will automatically take place once the evidential stage is met. A prosecution will usually take place unless the ...
Section 2 of the Dogs Act 1871 allows for a civil complaint to be pursued in respect of a dog deemed to be dangerous. Whilst the Attorney General has formally assigned the conduct of these civil proceedings to the Director of Public Prosecutions, pursuant to section 3(2)(g) Prosecution of Offences Act 1985, the police retain the right to conduct th...
In addition to assisting the court with the relevant Sentencing Guideline, prosecutors should remind the court in all cases to consider whether to make a compensation order and / or other ancillary orders, which include Destruction Orders, Contingent Destruction Orders (sections 4(1)(a), (1A) and 4A of the 1991 Act) and Orders disqualifying the def...
Apr 4, 2024 · Billy Leadley, who was also known as GSK or Green Street Kennels, entered a guilty plea part-way through the trial to one offence of causing unnecessary suffering to a dog by failing to provide...
- Stephanie Wareham
The following offences are covered by the revised definitive guidelines for dangerous dog offences: Owner or person in charge of a dog dangerously out of control in any place in England or Wales (whether or not a public place) where death is caused.
Mar 21, 2019 · In 1993, Snoop Dogg, aka Calvin Broadus, aka Snoop, aka The D-O-double G was charged with first-degree murder after a member of a rival gang was shot and killed by Snoop's bodyguard, McKinley Lee, aka Malik, who fired the shot while in the then 21-year-old rapper's vehicle.
Feb 21, 1996 · Snoop Doggy Dogg, one of the nation’s preeminent rap artists, was acquitted along with his bodyguard Tuesday of first- and second-degree murder charges in the shooting death of a gang member...
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