The two owners of an American pitbull-style dog that mauled 10-year-old schoolboy Jack Lis to death at a house in Wales in the UK on November 8 last year have both been jailed for four and-a-half, and three years, respectively..The 115 lb. animal was named Beast. .Along with jail term, both Brandon Hayden, 19, and Amy Salter, 29, were banned from owning a dog indefinitely..Hayden was jailed for four years and six months at Cardiff Crown Court on Friday. His friend Salter was sentenced to three years' jail time..The savage attack happened only days after multiple attacks by the same dog had been caught on camera..The tragedy occurred when the dog killed the schoolboy in a frenzied rage inside a friend's house near the owner's home in South Wales..Armed police who attended the incident reported they needed seven rounds of bullets to kill the dog..Jack was attacked without provocation..The child had been playing with a friend after school when they went to the house where Beast was roaming around on the ground floor of the home. The dog attacked Jack, biting his face, head, and neck..Security camera footage revealed in court showed the animal attacking shoppers and charging at children outside a local shop. One incident caught on camera was only 24 hours before Jack was killed by the dog and showed its owners laughing. It was clear from the video footage Hayden did not have control of the dog..The film also shows the animal lunging at horrified children as Hayden fails to pull him back. One child had to abandon his scooter and seek escape behind a wall..The court heard the dog also attacked shopper Sian Sullivan. The dog tore her hoodie and bit her several times on her chest..The attacks by the dog occurred in the early days of November, 2021..Jack Lis's mother Emma Whitfield made a statement to the court that was read out by another person on her behalf. In it Whitfield said,"No mum should ever have the last images of their child as being dragged from a house, knowing deep down they're gone but praying that it isn't so."."I close my eyes and I see the animal and its teeth. I hear the barking. I have severe panic attacks and I have horrifying flashbacks," she said.."I constantly ask 'Why my boy? Why Jack?.' I would have given my life trying to protect him, but I couldn't do this ... he was at a friend's house — a house where he should have been safe.".She continued: 'Some of the last conversations we had as a family were about Christmas presents and Jack told us what he wanted. Being able to buy his Christmas presents was even taken from us because all he asked for was clothes."."We were no longer shopping for Christmas presents, we were shopping for clothes for Jack to be buried in."."We should still have our Jack here in person to talk to, but instead we say good morning and good night to his pictures without a response."."I'm trapped in what used to be our family home. Now it's broken and it will never be the same again.".Jack Lis's father, John Lis, said in a statement also read to the court on his behalf: "How can I find the words to describe the impact that my son Jack's tragic unnecessary death have had on mine and my family's life? There isn't any."."Losing a child is heartbreaking to say the least, but to lose a child in such an horrific, unimaginable way is not something that anyone would ever be able to come to terms with, or accept."."The circumstances and the thought of how my son Jack must have been feeling at that time, all alone, in pain and frightened to death haunts me every day and night. I cannot close my eyes at night and think of anything else," Lis's father said..In the UK, it’s against the law to own certain types of dog. Banned breeds are:.Pit Bull TerrierJapanese TosaDogo ArgentinoFila Brasileiro.It’s also against the law to:.sell a banned dogabandon a banned doggive away a banned dogbreed from a banned dog.Whether the dog is a banned type depends on what it looks like, rather than its breed or name..The Canadian federal government does not regulate pitbull–type dogs, but Ontario and hundreds of other jurisdictions across the country have breed-specific legislation in place in the interests of public safety..Pit bull terriers, Staffordshire bull terriers, American Staffordshire terriers and American pit bull terriers are named in the Ontario act as banned dogs..The sentencing of the owners of the dog that killed Jack comes less than a week after an elderly Calgary woman, Betty Ann Williams, 86, was mauled to death by three pit bull-type dogs close to her home in the 1500 block of 21 Avenue N.W. Calgary..In 2018, a Quebec man whose pit bull-type dog attacked and severely disfigured a young girl was sentenced to four years in prison..Karim Jean-Gilles was found guilty of criminal negligence causing bodily harm after the 2015 dog attack left the seven-year-old girl with severe damage to her face and skull..The conviction of criminal negligence causing bodily harm carries a maximum 10-year prison term.
The two owners of an American pitbull-style dog that mauled 10-year-old schoolboy Jack Lis to death at a house in Wales in the UK on November 8 last year have both been jailed for four and-a-half, and three years, respectively..The 115 lb. animal was named Beast. .Along with jail term, both Brandon Hayden, 19, and Amy Salter, 29, were banned from owning a dog indefinitely..Hayden was jailed for four years and six months at Cardiff Crown Court on Friday. His friend Salter was sentenced to three years' jail time..The savage attack happened only days after multiple attacks by the same dog had been caught on camera..The tragedy occurred when the dog killed the schoolboy in a frenzied rage inside a friend's house near the owner's home in South Wales..Armed police who attended the incident reported they needed seven rounds of bullets to kill the dog..Jack was attacked without provocation..The child had been playing with a friend after school when they went to the house where Beast was roaming around on the ground floor of the home. The dog attacked Jack, biting his face, head, and neck..Security camera footage revealed in court showed the animal attacking shoppers and charging at children outside a local shop. One incident caught on camera was only 24 hours before Jack was killed by the dog and showed its owners laughing. It was clear from the video footage Hayden did not have control of the dog..The film also shows the animal lunging at horrified children as Hayden fails to pull him back. One child had to abandon his scooter and seek escape behind a wall..The court heard the dog also attacked shopper Sian Sullivan. The dog tore her hoodie and bit her several times on her chest..The attacks by the dog occurred in the early days of November, 2021..Jack Lis's mother Emma Whitfield made a statement to the court that was read out by another person on her behalf. In it Whitfield said,"No mum should ever have the last images of their child as being dragged from a house, knowing deep down they're gone but praying that it isn't so."."I close my eyes and I see the animal and its teeth. I hear the barking. I have severe panic attacks and I have horrifying flashbacks," she said.."I constantly ask 'Why my boy? Why Jack?.' I would have given my life trying to protect him, but I couldn't do this ... he was at a friend's house — a house where he should have been safe.".She continued: 'Some of the last conversations we had as a family were about Christmas presents and Jack told us what he wanted. Being able to buy his Christmas presents was even taken from us because all he asked for was clothes."."We were no longer shopping for Christmas presents, we were shopping for clothes for Jack to be buried in."."We should still have our Jack here in person to talk to, but instead we say good morning and good night to his pictures without a response."."I'm trapped in what used to be our family home. Now it's broken and it will never be the same again.".Jack Lis's father, John Lis, said in a statement also read to the court on his behalf: "How can I find the words to describe the impact that my son Jack's tragic unnecessary death have had on mine and my family's life? There isn't any."."Losing a child is heartbreaking to say the least, but to lose a child in such an horrific, unimaginable way is not something that anyone would ever be able to come to terms with, or accept."."The circumstances and the thought of how my son Jack must have been feeling at that time, all alone, in pain and frightened to death haunts me every day and night. I cannot close my eyes at night and think of anything else," Lis's father said..In the UK, it’s against the law to own certain types of dog. Banned breeds are:.Pit Bull TerrierJapanese TosaDogo ArgentinoFila Brasileiro.It’s also against the law to:.sell a banned dogabandon a banned doggive away a banned dogbreed from a banned dog.Whether the dog is a banned type depends on what it looks like, rather than its breed or name..The Canadian federal government does not regulate pitbull–type dogs, but Ontario and hundreds of other jurisdictions across the country have breed-specific legislation in place in the interests of public safety..Pit bull terriers, Staffordshire bull terriers, American Staffordshire terriers and American pit bull terriers are named in the Ontario act as banned dogs..The sentencing of the owners of the dog that killed Jack comes less than a week after an elderly Calgary woman, Betty Ann Williams, 86, was mauled to death by three pit bull-type dogs close to her home in the 1500 block of 21 Avenue N.W. Calgary..In 2018, a Quebec man whose pit bull-type dog attacked and severely disfigured a young girl was sentenced to four years in prison..Karim Jean-Gilles was found guilty of criminal negligence causing bodily harm after the 2015 dog attack left the seven-year-old girl with severe damage to her face and skull..The conviction of criminal negligence causing bodily harm carries a maximum 10-year prison term.