CONVICTED (2020) | Michael ‘Mikey’ Rose (aka Michael Garner), born c. 1997, previously of Hill Park Crescent, Greenbank, Plymouth PL4 but most recently no fixed abode – punched and kicked a police dog after constables found him living in a tent in woods
Rose, who is originally from Basildon, Essex, punched and kicked PD Ollie as constables tried to restrain him. But the dog managed to grab hold of his ankle as he’d been trained to do.
The thug also rained blows on three police officers who found him in a tent and tried to headbutt another back at the police station.
Rose then assaulted two custody officers who were taking him to court the next day. One of the officers later said it was the most aggressive he had seen someone in 17 years of policing.
Jailing him for 18 months in total, Judge William Mousley said all six officers had been “just doing their job”.
He added that Rose had significant mental health difficulties, including paranoia, though he had refused to co-operate with psychiatric staff in the past.
Rose pleaded guilty to six counts of assaulting an emergency worker and one of causing unnecessary suffering to a dog on December 23 and December 24, 2019.
He changed his pleas minutes ahead of his trial.
Police Dog Ollie’s Twitter account said after the attack that there were no serious injuries and that he “recovered quickly”.
Rose was jailed in December 2017 for 29 months for two offences of blackmail. The latest offences were committed on licence after his release.
Sentencing: 18 months in prison.