Family dog will be executed for biting two council workers

A dangerous dog that chased and savaged two east London council workers in two days will be destroyed despite a petition to save him, a judge has ruled. Benji, a nine-year-old border collie lurcher cross, bit and drew blood after attacking council worker Michael Lee as he tried to fix the Cornell family’s boiler. The following day he bit another council worker’s employee’s elbow and leg when she came to assess the animal, Thames Magistrates heard. Ryan Thompson, prosecuting, said:…