Three frontline ambulance workers have bravely shared their harrowing experience of being attacked by a patient’s dog while responding to an emergency call in Leicester in August 2023. Paramedics Asha Patel, and Rebecca Dunn, and student paramedic Cerys Hughes recount the terrifying incident, shedding light on the challenges they face in the line of duty.
The dog’s owner, Pradipkumar Dayal, 55, who has no fixed abode, was sentenced at Leicester Crown Court last week to 25 months in prison. Dayal faced charges that included three counts of possession of a dangerously out-of-control dog. Additionally, he was disqualified from keeping a dog indefinitely. Dayal was also sentenced for separate charges of common assault, criminal damage, cultivation of cannabis, and two counts of possession of cannabis.
