Jade O’Brien has been jailed after her ex partner’s dog, Narla, attacked a person and a dog two weeks apart (Picture: STEVE ALLEN)
A woman has been jailed after she told the devastated owner of a dog mauled to death by her ex partner’s XL bully that ‘it’s not my f****** fault’.
Jade O’Brien was looking after her ex-partner’s dog, named Narla, when it attacked a person and killed a dog in two attacks just two weeks apart.
The attacks happened close to her home in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, in July 2021.
During the first, a woman was walking her one-year-old spaniel with her two children when she spotted Narla running down O’Brien’s driveway towards them.
She grabbed her dog, but Narla then attacked her instead, backing her into a hedge and biting her arm.
The victim was left with serious arm and leg injuries, caused when Narla was jumping up and down at her, and the scars and claw marks were ‘still visible six months later’, Manchester magistrates court heard.
O’Brien cried in court as she was sentenced to four months in prison (Picture: STEVE ALLEN)
The court has now ordered for Narla to be destroyed (Picture: STEVE ALLEN)
In the second attack a teenage girl was walking her small white dog near O’Brien’s home when it was mauled by the XL bully.
The girl ran off and her dog was rushed to the vets, where sadly it had to be put down.
When her dad told O’Brien what had happened and that Narla was to blame, she said: ‘It’s not my f****** fault. F*** off d***head.’
The court heard that O’Brien, 36, has eight previous convictions for battery, excess alcohol and criminal damage.
She sobbed as she was handed a four month prison sentence.
O’Brien, of Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, had previously pleaded guilty to two charges of being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control and one charge of using threatening/abusive/insulting words or behaviour.
The dog belonged to O’Brien’s ex partner, who was in prison (Picture: STEVE ALLEN)
Jonathan Condor, defending, told the court that Narla wasn’t her dog and its owner, O’Brien’s ex partner, was currently on remand in prison for allegedly assaulting her.
He said O’Brien had been the victim of domestic abuse and had also suffered a stroke in 2018 but she accepted she was responsible for the two attacks.
Mr Condor said other dogs had been brought to her address at the time and ‘she did feel a certain degree of pressure to go along with what he [her ex] was saying’.
He described O’Brien as a ‘dog lover’ who had been left ‘shocked’ by the attack on the girl’s dog, saying she ‘strongly opposed’ Narla’s destruction.
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District judge Thomas Mitchell said he had considered O’Brien’s circumstances and that she had ‘to some extent been imposed upon’ by her ex and wasn’t the ‘best person’ to look after dogs.
Jailing her for four months, he said it was a serious case’ that could only be dealt with by immediate custody.
He also banned her from owing dogs for five years, handed her a £154 victim surcharge and made a destruction order for Narla.
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Jade O’Brien was looking after her ex-partner’s dog, named Narla, when it attacked a person and killed a dog in two attacks just two weeks apart.