Council offers amnesty to owners of pit bull terriers

PIT bull terriers have already been handed in and destroyed ahead of Northern Ireland’s first amnesty.

Owners of the outlawed breed in Ballymena, County Antrim, have been given the whole of January to hand in the dogs without fear of prosecution.

The town council’s dog warden, Nigel Devine, said: “Two pit bulls have been presented to us already. One was left at our landfill site early in December and the other was just handed in to us at the council.”