Sarah_Jayne |
09-25-2006 08:18 AM |
For those that don't live in the UK :
Rottweilers maul baby to death
LONDON (Reuters) - Police investigating how a 5-month-old baby came to mauled to death by two Rottweiler dogs have launched a murder inquiry after a 47-year-old woman was killed in a knife attack and a man seriously injured.
Media reports on Monday said the injured 50-year old man was the grandfather of the dead baby girl, named by newspapers as Caydee-Lee Glaze.
"We are attempting to establish whether there was a familial link with the people who were stabbed and the dead baby," a Leicester Police spokeswoman confirmed.
But she added: "there is absolutely no connection with the death of the baby and the stabbings."
Police said a 26-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman have been arrested in connection with the stabbings.
Baby Caydee-Lee was savaged by guard dogs at The Rocket pub in the New Parks area of the city on Saturday afternoon.
Just hours later, early on Sunday morning, emergency services went to an address in Grassington Close in the Beaumont Leys part of the city. They found the dead body of 47-year-old Debra Larn and the badly injured 50-year-old man.
Both had been stabbed.
On Monday neighbours described the two dogs which killed the baby girl as guard dogs and not pets.
"They were very aggressive and known to be vicious. Everybody around here was petrified of them," neighbour Amy Grimbley told the Daily Mirror.
Another neighbour said the attack had been ferocious.
"If that was my baby I'd want the animals destroyed -- in fact I'd want to do it myself."
The dogs have been destroyed.
"The baby's distraught family have appealed for members of the media to allow them privacy at this difficult time as they seek to come to terms with the tragic death of their much-loved little girl," a police statement said.
Last month a four-year-old boy needed 200 stitches to repair injuries he received after a bulldog mauled his face in an attack in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.
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