Owner of killer dog has sentence for assaults cut

Seren Lloyd was initially sentenced at Bishop Street courthouse on Friday

A woman who admitted assaulting three people as they tried to stop her pit bull-type dog killing another dog has had her sentence reduced.

Seren Lloyd, from Strand Road in Londonderry, admitted three assaults and a charge of disorderly behaviour relating to the dog attack.

On Friday a judge at Londonderry Magistrates' Court jailed 23-year-old Lloyd for seven months.

However, on Monday that sentence was reduced following appeal to four months in custody.

Judge Neil Rafferty told the County Court on Monday that Lloyd’s behaviour was “disgraceful” and read a victim impact report from the smaller dog’s owner who said she had watched “while my dog was torn apart in front of me”.

Reducing the sentence, the judge said Lloyd was on a “merry go round of chaos and drugs”.