A housing association tenant has been given a suspended prison sentence after disobeying a court injunction forbidding her keeping dogs at her home.
Bron Afon Community Housing had taken out the injunction earlier in the year after one of its housing officers needed 30 stitches after part of her lip was ripped away after visiting the home of Nicola Hope, of Capel Newydd Avenue, Blaenavon. She was mauled by Ms Hope’s Staffordshire Bull Terrier.On Tuesday Ms Hope was committed to 28 days prison after it emerged she was still keeping a dog. The order was suspended until July 2010 and will not be put into force if Ms Hope removes any dogs from her home and does not allow them to come back.
Duncan Forbes, Chief Executive of Bron Afon Community Housing, said: ‘On this occasion we had two witnesses who saw dogs in the home so we prepared a case for court. One witness said that after knocking the front door it was opened and ‘a Staffordshire bull terrier which was inside the house came charging towards the front door.’ The person who opened the door had to hold the dog back. This was exactly what happened to our member of staff that was attacked. We don’t know if that was the same dog but the injunction said she was not allowed to keep any dogs at that address.’
He added that Ms Hope had shown ‘she has no interest in protecting the safety of our staff, visitors or her neighbours. It could easily have been a child knocking on her door.’ He added that the association has also been granted a possession order for a separate breach of tenancy conditions and non-payment of rent.
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