Dog that mauled boy to death was illegal

The dog that savaged John-Paul Massey to death in England was an illegally-held pitbull-type dog banned for being too dangerous to keep, it was revealed today.

Dog that mauled boy to death was illegal

The dog that savaged John-Paul Massey to death in England was an illegally-held pitbull-type dog banned for being too dangerous to keep, it was revealed today.

The four-year-old boy was attacked by the powerful dog, which locals said was a family pet that belonged to his uncle, in the early hours of yesterday morning while at the home of his grandmother, Helen Foulkes, 63, in Liverpool.

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