AN AMERICAN PIT BULL TERRIER FOUND DEAD AFTER AN A

AN AMERICAN PIT BULL TERRIER FOUND DEAD AFTER AN ALLEGED DOG

FIGHT HAD SUFFERED A MASSIVE SHOCK, A POST MORTEM REVEALED.

VET RAYMOND BUTCHER EXAMINED THE ANIMAL JUST HOURS AFTER IT WAS

FOUND IN A BOILER ROOM AT ALDERSBROOK PRIMARY SCHOOL, WANSTEAD, EAST

LONDON, REDBRIDGE MAGISTRATES HEARD TODAY (WED).

POLICE DISCOVERED THE DOG, STILL WARM DURING A RAID ON THE

SCHOOL.

A STATEMENT BY MR BUTCHER, READ TO THE COURT, REVEALLED THE DOG

DIED FROM HAEMORRAGING CAUSED BY ‘A SUDDEN TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE.

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THERE WERE NO FLESH WOUNDS OR BRUISING, BUT THE TERRIER’S LIVER

CAPSULE HAD SPLIT AND ITS ABDOMEN HAD FILLED WITH BLOOD.

EARLIER THE COURT HEARD HOW HEADMISTRESS SHIRLEY CROUCH FOUND

‘BLOODLIKE SPLASHES’ ON THE SIDE OF A CHILDREN’S SWIMMING POOL AT HER

SCHOOL AFTER AN ALLEGED ILLEGAL DOG FIGHT.

MRS CROUCH MADE THE FIND DURING A THOROUGH SEARCH AFTER HER

CARETAKER WAS ARRESTED AND ACCUSED OF HOLDING AN ORGANISED DOGFIGHT

AT THE SCHOOL.

CHECKING THE PREMISES, THE FOLLOWING DAY, SHE DISCOVERED

‘BROWN SPECKS’ ON THE SIDE OF THE POOL.

‘AFTER WHAT I HAD HEARD HAD BEEN GOING ON, I WALKED ROUND THE

SCHOOL TO CHECK THERE WAS NOTHING TO WORRY THE CHILDREN’, MRS CROUCH

TOLD REDBRIDGE MAGISTRATES COURT.

‘I FOUND TINY SPLODGES LIKE BLOOD ON THE SIDE WALL OF THE

BATHS’.

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CARETAKER ALEXANDER FUNK WAS ARRESTED BY POLICE WHO SWOOPED ON

THE SCHOOL, ALDERSBROOK COUNTY PRIMARY ON OCTOBER 6 LAST YEAR.

HE

DENIES ALLOWING THE SCHOOL TO BE USED FOR A DOG FIGHT, AND TWO OTHER

CHARGES OF ASSISTING AND AIDING AND ABETTING DOG FIGHTING.

IT IS ALLEGED THAT FUNK AND A GROUP OF MEN GATHERED AT THE

SCHOOL TO WATCH A FIGHT BETWEEN AMERICAN PIT BULL TERRIERS.

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ARRESTS WERE MADE BY POLICE FOLLOWING A TIP-OFF FROM AN INFORMANT.

PRIMARY SCHOOL CARETAKER ALEXANDER FUNK, 30, OF ALDERSBROOKE

SCHOOL LODGE IN INGATESTONE ROAD, WANSTEAD, ACCUSED OF BEING THE

‘PRIME ORGANISER’, DENIES TWO CHARGES OF CAUSING DOG FIGHTING AND

ALLOWING THE SCHOOL TO BE USED FOR DOG FIGHTING ON OCTOBER 6 LAST

YEAR.

FOUR OTHER DEFENDANTS, PAUL FOLEY, 39, OF HOBART ROAD,

DAGENHAM, PETER PRESTON, 45, OF BODDER HOUSE, FRISKNEY, BOSTON,

LINCS, KEITH RAVENSCROFT, 27, OF LONG LANE, MIDDLEWICH, CHESHIRE,

AND CRAIG NUTTALL, 24, OF DANE STREET, MIDDLEWICH, ALL DENY

ALTERNATIVE CHARGES OF AIDING OR ASSISTING THE FIGHT,.

A SIXTH MAN, RAYMOND HEATHER, 26, OF ADMIRAL HOUSE, HUCKING,

MAIDSTONE IN KENT, PLEADED GUILTY TO ASSISTING THE FIGHT AND WAS

REMANDED IN CUSTODY UNTIL JUNE 6.

THE CHARGES WERE BROUGHT UNDER THE 1911 PROTECTION OF

ANIMALS ACT.

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