CONVICTED (2024) | Connor Weeks, born 8 July 2000, with a last known address of Park Hall Road, Mansfield Woodhouse, Mansfield NG19 – subjected an XL Bully to beatings during a spate of violent and reckless offending.
Weeks, who has already racked up 12 convictions for 24 offences, repeatedly beat his dog with a frying pan. A witness saw the unnamed dog “cowering and whimpering” against a fence as she was struck time and time again by Weeks in his garden.
The thug’s crime spree also saw him him lead police on dangerous high-speed chases through Nottinghamshire on two occasions.
The first incident involving the dog took place in Sherwood Street, Warsop, Mansfield in March 2023, when a gas engineer working in the area heard shouting and screaming coming from the property behind. He saw Weeks and heard the sound of a dog whimpering.
The gas engineer had called police, and was waiting for them to arrive when Weeks got in his van and drove off a short distance, before returning with a wheel brace.
Weeks, who was wearing a balaclava, struck the engineer twice to the head with the wheel brace, causing a deep cut above his eyebrow, before driving off.
A second incident involving the XL bully happened in the garden of the defendant’s shared YMCA accommodation on July 10, 2024.
A neighbour heard the sound of a dog whimpering and looked out to see her cowering in a fence and with the defendant repeatedly striking her on the head and body with a frying pan.
When police arrived Weeks told them he was in poor mental health and reacted in the way he did as the dog had defecated in the kitchen.
The dog was taken away by the police and confirmed to be an XL Bully.
Weeks pleaded guilty to charges including wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, criminal damage, dangerous driving and causing unnecessary suffering to an animal.
He also admitted owning a banned breed of dog.
Bianca Brasoveanu, mitigating, said in relation to beating the dog, her client “saw the red mist”. She added that he had had “a sad and violent upbringing”.
Sentencing | Jailed for four years and four months. Banned from keeping any animal for eight years (expires August 2032).
Banned for life from owning a pet would have been the preferred result. He is obviously a nightmare of a man to deal with and no dependent creature should ever be in his care.