A junior league football coach battered an off-duty police officer after a dog attack in St Helens.
Timothy O’Hanlon was knocked to the floor and punched in the head by Michael Lever on the morning of November 6 last year. Mr O'Hanlon had remonstrated with Lever after two American bulldog pups had launched an attack on his dog.
The attack happened on wasteland near the Shires housing estate in St Helens. Today Liverpool Crown Court was told Mr O'Hanlon, a serving police officer, thought his dog was going to die in the incident.