Finally justice for Romford dog attack postwoman

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Clare Offord lost the tips of two of her fingers when a vicious dog caught her hand through a letterbox while she was delivering post to an address in Romford on February 23.

She was rushed to hospital where she underwent emergency surgery.

She had only been a postwoman for five months, and so did not qualify for full-sick pay, despite the horrifying extent of her injuries.

Earlier this month at Barkingside Magistrates Court the dog’s owner pleaded guilty and was convicted of an aggravated offence under the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991, of being the owner of a dog dangerously out of control causing injury.

He was ordered to pay fines, compensation and costs totalling £8,793 from which Ms Offord received a compensation order for £2,764.

Additionally the judge placed a “contingent” (or suspended) destruction order on the dog, meaning that any further offences would result in the dog being put down.

He also imposed a control order stating that the dog must at all times be on a lead and muzzled in public places, and the owner must have a third party liability insurance certificate for the rest of the dog’s life.