Hastings Dog Attack: Owner Spencer Brown Faces Multiple Charges After 10 Injured

Dog Owner Faces Charges After 10 Hospitalised

A 21-year-old faces multiple charges after a dog attack with left 10 needing hospital treatment on Sunday.

Spencer Brown, 21, of St Leonards, East Sussex, has been charged with six counts of owning a dog dangerously out of control in a public place in Marline Road on 22 July.

Brown also faces a charge of cannabis possession from 22 July and another count of owning a dog dangerously out on control from May.

He is set to appear at Hastings Magistrates' Court later on Tuesday.

Police attended Marline Road in St Leonards at close to 9pm on Sunday after a report that two dogs had escaped into the street and attacked a number of people.

The dogs were Staffordshire bull terriers according to The Daily Mail.

When officers arrived, one of the dogs had already been detained by members of the public but a dog unit was required to contain the other.

A second man was arrested but later released without charge.

A Sussex Police spokesman said: "Ten local people, none of whom are children, sustained a range of serious but not life- threatening bites, cuts and scratches caused in the attacks in the street and were treated at the Conquest Hospital.

"None have been detained at hospital but three of the 10, a woman and two men, have been referred for outpatient treatment at the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead.

"The two dogs have been taken to secure kennels in the South East. The police will be seeking a destruction order for the dogs to be destroyed."

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