CONVICTED (2015) | Jack Delaney, born 27 May 1993, previously of Haslingden, Rossendale, Lancashire but more recently (March 2021) of 607 Blackburn Road, Rising Bridge, Accrington BB5 2SB – caught on camera terrorising and beating a subdued dog
Convicted drug dealer Delaney, who as of late 2019 had racked up 15 convictions for 32 offences. was captured on a neighbour’s tablet computer “punishing” the two-year-old bulldog named Biggy during an outburst that lasted five minutes.
The footage shows Delaney slapping Biggy before picking him up and throwing him against his back gate. He then drags the dog into a back street and kicks him repeatedly.
It seems that steriod abuser Delaney had battered his pet several times before and by all accounts the dog was terrified of him.
An RSPCA prosecutor had been called to Delaney’s home in April 2014 after receiving reports from several different people of his violent treatment of the dog. No legal action was taken at this point.
In July 2014 another inspector attended Delaney’s home again after concerns a dog was being beaten at the address.
Delaney told the inspector the animal had escaped, run across the road to attack another dog and he had hit him to discipline him, as he claimed nothing else worked.
Just four days later, a neighbour of Delaney’s was at her kitchen window when she witnessed him hurl a torrent of abuse at the dog and punch him. The animal didn’t react, but appeared terrified, the witness said.
Delaney was then said to have hit the animal, with what appeared to be a piece of wood, three to five times and the dog didn’t make a sound.
She heard another neighbour shouting at the defendant, telling him to stop hitting the dog. The prosecutor said : ‘She describes the incident as seeming to go on forever.’
Police were called and spoke to Delaney and the neighbour who made the recording.
Two weeks after the film was made, Delaney went round to the neighbour’s home and emptied his bins on her front garden, the court heard. Police later seized the dog.
When interviewed by officers, Delaney said he’d owned Biggie since he was six weeks old and described his temperament as ‘perfect.’
He said he couldn’t remember much about the incident and added: ‘He was pissing and shitting in the house and I have ended up twatting him.’ He admitted throwing water over the dog and ‘banging him off the fence.’
Delaney accepted what he had done was wrong and said he had lost his temper. He has now signed the dog over to the RSPCA.
Delaney’s solicitor said her client had started using anabolic steroids which “brought out that appalling, aggressive manner.’
The solicitor told the hearing Delaney, who has learning difficulties, Aspergers Syndrome and ADHD and receives disability living allowance and employment support allowance, had not been taught how to house-train the dog.
Sentencing: 18-month community order, with 18 months’ probation supervision and 60 hours’ unpaid work. £1,400 boarding costs to the RSPCA, £330 compensation,£60 statutory surcharge. Banned from keeping dogs for a pitiful two years (expired 2017).
Its no good blaming any drugs.
If you haven’t got the Patience For Basic Training That A Dog Needs. Then Don’t Have A Dog In The First Place.
Its as simple as that.