Pilot shot dead XL Bully dog to 'save victim’s life'

A HEROIC air ambulance pilot borrowed a farmer's shotgun to shoot dead an XL Bully dog as it attacked several people.

- DAVID POWELL

A judge on Friday praised the pilot for his bravery, saying it saved a person’s life.

‘The attack took place after a landlord arrived at an isolated property in Gwynedd to collect rent from his tenants.

When the landlord sounded his car horn, the tenants’ dog became aggressive and attacked the landlord, the dog owner and the dog owner's husband.

Lisa Grant, 56, admitted being the owner of a dog dangerously out of control causing serious injury to her landlord Gwilym Wyn Roberts in Rhoshirwaun near Pwllheli on November 17, 2023.

A judge at Caernarfon Crown Court, who heard Grant was bitten and suffered life-changing issues herself, gave her an eight-month jail term suspended for 12 months.

Prosecutor Will Griffin said at 11.29am that day North Wales Police were told that “multiple individuals” had been bitten by a dog running loose at Top Rhos Farm in Rhoshirwaun.