Mauled girl's uncle jailed for owning danger dog

The uncle of a five-year-old girl killed by a pit bull terrier in England was jailed for eight weeks today for owning the illegal dog.

Kiel Simpson, 24, pleaded guilty to owning a dog banned under the UK's 1991 Dangerous Dogs Act at a previous hearing at Liverpool Magistrates’ Court.

Ellie Lawrenson was mauled to death by the one-year-old American pit bull terrier while at her grandmother’s house in St Helens, Merseyside, in the early hours of New Year’s Day.