HULL MAN BRANDON LOGAN JAILED FOR VICIOUS DOG STABBING
A badly injured dog had to be put down by a vet after a man brutally stabbed it with a knife in a "horrific" attack that was allegedly sparked by the animal biting him on his nose.Police later found a large amount of blood and "blood-shaped paw prints" in the garden from the "vicious, cruel and heartless" stabbing, Hull Crown Court heard.
Hull man Brandon Logan, 22, admitted causing unnecessary suffering to an animal on May 11.
Andrew Lister, prosecuting, said that, in the early hours, the emergency services received a telephone call from Logan's mother to say that she had just been told by him in another telephone call that his dog, called KiKi, had supposedly bitten him on the face and that he had stabbed the dog with a knife.
The mother claimed in a "harrowing" statement that Logan told her in his telephone call: "She bit my nose off.
She bit my f***ing nose off." At 2.10am, an ambulance went to an address in Grafton Street, Hull, and a crew member knocked on the front door.
"The defendant could be seen through the window and he was pacing back and forth between the stairs and the door," said Mr Lister.
"He proceeded to turn the hallway light off and ignore the knocking on the door." The paramedic asked Logan to identify himself through the letterbox.
"The defendant responded by saying: 'I don't know why you are here.
Just go away'," said Mr Lister.
"Upon the police's arrival at 2.17am, the defendant revealed himself to be Brandon Logan." When asked why he earlier refused to identify himself, he said he just wanted the ambulance crew to go away.
He refused all forms of assessments and treatments from the ambulance service and the paramedic could not see any obvious injuries indicating bite marks on Logan's nose but he could see a small trickle of blood coming from his left nostril.
Police detained Logan and noticed blood in the kitchen.
A knife was lying on the side and it looked to have old blood on the blade.
"The blood led from the kitchen to the rear door and garden," said Mr Lister.
A police officer saw a large amount of blood and blood-shaped paw prints.
Logan was arrested at 2.45am.
The dog was taken to a vet because of its serious injuries.
Due to the severity of the injuries, KiKi was put down.
Logan's behaviour was "vicious, cruel and heartless" towards the dog, claimed Mr Lister.
Logan made no comment in police interview.
He had no previous convictions.
Ben Hammersley, mitigating, said it was a "horrific case" and a "tragic incident" with distressful images of the dog.
Logan used a knife to inflict the injuries.
"I don't seek to minimise that whatsoever," said Mr Hammersley.
"He has pleaded guilty at the earliest opportunity.
The defendant reported feeling thoroughly ashamed of his actions and genuine remorse.
He deeply regrets what happened." Logan had previously suffered substance misuse and worked in a food factory.
"He is not working at the moment," said Mr Hammersley.
Recorder Alistair MacDonald KC told Logan: "You behaved appallingly and cruelly to a dog that you had had for some considerable time.
You used a knife on the dog and the dog had to be killed by a vet as a result of the injuries that you inflicted on that dog." "You were in drink.
You lost your temper and behaved very badly.
I accept that you were very sorry about what happened when you came to and realised what you had done." Logan was sentenced to a four-month suspended prison sentence, 150 hours of unpaid work, and 15 days of rehabilitation.
He is banned from owning, keeping, or being involved with animals for 10 years.
