A Staffordshire bull terrier that mauled a five-year-old girl’s face after being trained as a fighting dog is to be destroyed, as a judge branded the owner “despicable” and said the attack should have been prevented.
The girl, Elsie, was playing with her older sister when she was set upon by the dog, called Spike. She was dragged across the ground by her hair before it sank its teeth into her face.
