Dog owner jailed for bull attack on Anglesey farm

A woman has been jailed after her two dogs savaged a prize bull worth £3,000, which later had to be put down.

Leanne Meredith, 35, of no fixed address, was jailed for a total of 21 months after being convicted of allowing her two American bulldogs to attack a Limousin bull and sheep on a farm in Anglesey, north Wales in July 2012.

The mother-of-two was also found guilty of allowing her dogs to attack a flock of sheep in Anglesey in September 2012, in which nine sheep were killed on Brynteg tenant farmer Alun Hughes’ farm.

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Leanne Meredith

Caernarfon Crown Court heard on Monday (28 September) that Mrs Meredith had been convicted of livestock worrying and a charge under the Dangerous Dogs Act of allowing her dogs to enter a private place where they should not be.

Following the case she went on the run to Ireland in 2013 before she was due to be sentenced. But police arrested her two years later in August this year.

The court was told Mrs Meredith allowed two dogs to attack a Limousin bull, called Hercules, on a farm in Tynygongl, near Benllech, on Anglesey.

Witnesses watched in horror as the dogs, described as “frothing at the mouth, baying for blood” sank their teeth into the bull and left puncture wounds all over its body, reported the Daily Post.

The bull’s ear was “shredded” and its tag ripped off in the attack. It later became infertile and had to be put down.

The dogs were captured and kept in kennels by North Wales Police, costing £23,000.

Recorder David Aubrey QC jailed Mrs Meredith for one month for the bull attack, a concurrent three months for the sheep worrying attack, one year for witness intimidation and six months for absconding to Ireland.