Shocking bodycam footage captures the moment a police officer was bitten by a pit bull terrier inside a property in Leicestershire, leaving him with serious injuries.
On the afternoon of Thursday, October 26, 2023, two local officers attended an address in Ibstock wanting to speak to Aden Hollyoake.
Hollyoake’s partner Shanell Lawrence answered the door and when officers explained they wanted to speak to her about Hollyoake, Lawrence allowed them in.
She told the officers she had dogs in the house, and they were in the kitchen, but they were fine to come inside.
Less than a minute inside, as one of the officers stood talking to Lawrence in the doorway from the hall into the lounge, one of the dogs suddenly pushed open the closed kitchen door before rushing through the lounge and up to the officer attacking him.
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The footage shows him shouting in pain struggling to release the dog which had clamped his jaws onto his upper inner leg.
His colleague discharged his an incapacitant spray in an attempt to get the dog to stop but this was unsuccessful.
The dog finally let go after almost a minute of biting and the two officers managed to escape through the front door.
The officer was later taken to hospital where he had an operation to repair and stitch four bite wounds to his leg. His colleague sustained a small laceration to his finger.
The XL bully was removed from the property alongside another dog which was in a crate in the kitchen at the time of the incident. Tests later confirmed this dog to be a pit bull terrier which is a banned breed within the UK. Both dogs currently remain in secure kennels.
Lawrence and Hollyoake, who was not home at the time of the incident and owns both the dogs, were later arrested.
Hollyoake, 33, of no fixed abode, pleaded guilty to possession or custody of a dog to which section 1 of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 applied, namely a female dog of the pit-bull type.
Lawrence was given a 12-month community order. Hollyoake was sentenced to two years and three months in prison.
