DOG BIT 4-YR-OLD BOY AND MUM IN 'VICIOUS' ATTACK

A DANGEROUS dog bit a four-year-old boy and his mother in a “vicious” attack.

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The dog struck in Llandudno and it has now been put down.

Alexander Jones, 27, appeared at Caernarfon Crown Court yesterday to be sentenced for two offences of being the owner of a dog dangerously out of control which caused injury to two people.

The judge Her Honour Nicola Jones branded the attack “vicious” but also heard that Jones has his own “vulnerabilities”.

She gave him a 16-month jail sentence, suspended for 18 months.

The court heard a mother and her two children were on a street near Llandudno town centre at 3.15pm on March 5 last year.

Jones had a dog - a Belgian Malinois - which bit the four-year-old boy.

The court heard the mother tried to get the dog off the boy and in doing so was bitten herself.

The attack was witnessed by the boy’s three-year-old sister.