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14.08.2023 - 17:09 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A couple whose dog mauled their baby daughter to death in a “tragic” case have been spared jail. Blizzard, a Siberian husky used for racing, killed three-month-old Kyra King in woodland on March 6 last year.
The animal, which was one of 19 dogs kept by Vince King and Karen Alcock, fatally mauled Kyra after the family had been racing the dogs, Lincoln Crown Court heard. Kyra was left with multiple head and neck injuries, and her parents performed CPR in an attempt to revive her.
Judge Sjolin Knight said the incident resulted from a “tragic conjunction of circumstances”. Sentencing the pair on Monday, she said: “This is a tragic case, and I have no doubt that both of you wish every day you could wind the clock back so that incident never happened. There was nothing to trigger [Blizzard’s] attack on Kyra, but on this occasion she was dangerously out of control."
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The judge added: “Dog ownership is a privilege and for many a pleasure, but it comes with a heavy burden under the Dangerous Dogs Act. [Blizzard] did an awful thing which neither of you expected and will weigh heavily upon you for the rest of your lives."
The judge said she did not believe the incident was "reasonably foreseeable" instead describing it as "a momentary lapse of an otherwise good system". She handed both defendants a suspended sentence.
Prosecutor Jeremy Janes told the court that the defendants were experienced dog owners and regularly raced their animals, which were used for sport in sledging teams, rather than being domestic pets. King, 55, had raced dogs for 20 years after working in the military and also bred huskies, and on the day of
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