Cop to be tried over dog death mauling

A police officer lost control of a Staffie as it fatally mauled a tiny dog in a park, a court heard. Nicola Smith, 30, was off duty when she took her parents’ two Staffies to West Heath Recreation Ground in Bexleyheath, southeast London, on April 10. One of them, Buster, lunged at a tiny Papillon being walked by 66-year-old Stuart Burns. Mr Burns suffered almost a dozen cuts to his hands and arms attempting to pry Buster’s jaws off the…