PERTH SEX OFFENDER JAILED FOR INCITING DOG ATTACK ON YOUNG GIRLS
A sex offender who incited his rottweiler to attack two schoolgirls has been jailed for the second time in a week.Martin Reeves encouraged the dog to chase the girls and they were forced to run across a road without looking as they tried to escape.
Reeves was found guilty of attacking the 14 and 15-year-old girls in Balhousie Street, Perth, after a trial at the city’s sheriff court.
He was found guilty of assaulting the teenagers by repeatedly inciting his rottweiler to menace, attack, injure and pursue them on June 16, 2021.
The teenagers told the court they had not done anything to annoy the dog and Reeves had not been provoked into setting it upon them.
They described how they saw the rottweiler bare its teeth and they both felt they had to run away across the road at speed to avoid being bitten.
Sheriff Neil Bowie imposed a three-month prison sentence but said it should run concurrently with a 74-week term imposed on Reeves last week for a sexual offence.
