peckham_ryu

Sorry to hear such a horrible story. It's such a lovely park, it's really sad to have it spoiled for your family by this idiot dog owner/walker. I hope we can challenge idiots like this so that everyone can enjoy the park. Frustrating too to hear the police situation: ------------------------------ Serendipity1 wrote: "police can't do anything as it's 'dog on dog'" ------------------------------ There may be practical reasons why the Police can't take action, but there are no legal reasons. Are they trying to fob dog owners off? Some extracts from the GOV.UK website https://www.gov.uk/control-dog-public/overview : - It?s against the law to let a dog be dangerously out of control anywhere - A court could also decide that your dog is dangerously out of control if: it injures someone?s animal the owner of the animal thinks they could be injured if they tried to stop your dog attacking their animal - You can be fined up to ?20,000 or sent to prison for up to 6 months (or both) if your dog is dangerously out of control. You may not be allowed to own a dog in the future and your dog may be destroyed. IANAL but I find it hard to credit that any court would not agree that this nasty incident meets the 'dangerously out of control' criteria. The difficulty may be not having enough evidence to positively identify the offender, but it rather sounds like the Police aren't interested at all. Have they decided that they have better things to do than making our public parks safe for young ladies to walk their dogs in broad daylight without being terrorised??