Man avoids jail after XL Bully nearly scalped woman and clamped on the leg of another before being shot

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A man has avoided jail after his XL Bulldog nearly scalped a woman and clamped down on the leg of another before it was shot in Oldham.

Carlton Thompson, 29, has now been banned from owning dogs for five years. Police were called to Shakespeare Road following reports that two women had been attacked in the morning of October 22 last year. Join our FREE Manchester Crime and Court WhatsApp group by clicking here One of the women, a neighbour of Thompson, had gone to his house after seeing two of his dogs had gotten into her garden through a hole in the fence.

One was the XL Bulldog, called Bali. She tried to contact Thompson’s partner but got no response, so knocked on the door, which was answered by a 14-year-old boy. “The neighbour and the 14-year-old boy tried to block the hole, at which point the dog poked its nose through the hole and walked into her garden,” prosecutor John Richards told Minshull Street Crown Court. “When it got through it jumped up at her, and she put her hand out to stop him from jumping, but he clawed and bit her arm.” The woman tried to open the jaws of the dog to get him off her, but he continued to bite her arms and legs.

She was then thrown onto the floor onto her front, and it stood on her back and grabbed her by the ponytail. The woman tried to run into her house, but the dog was able to get inside and bit her on the arm again.