HC Deb 29 April 1971 vol 816 cc179-80W
Mr. Ronald Brown

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on the circumstances surrounding the savaging by guard dogs at the premises in Finsbury, where police intervention was necessary.

Mr. Maudling

On the afternoon of Sunday, 25th April, the police were called to the premises of Messrs. Johnson Belfar and Company, Wharf Road, London, N.1, a timber yard and factory. The police found a four-year-old boy being savaged by two alsatian dogs inside the yard. They forced the gate, drove the dogs off and removed the boy, who was taken to hospital by ambulance. The police subsequently shot the dogs.

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