The Home Secretary last night promised to ban killer XL bully dogs.
Suella Braverman intends to ban their cultivation and sale after the latest horror attack on a girl, 11, and two men who intervened in Birmingham at the weekend.
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Bully chases man to Birmingham petrol station Credit: TikTok
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Horror as a passerby tries to shoo the dog away Credit: TikTok
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Suella Braverman vows to ban killer XL violent dogs Credit: Alamy
The thugs have been linked to nine deaths, including three of children, since 2021.
Ms Braverman said: “They are terrorizing our communities and pose a particular threat to children. It has to come to an end.”
The Home Secretary branded XL attack dogs a “clear and deadly danger” when she banned them in this country.
Ms Braverman tweeted: “America’s XL thug is a clear and deadly danger to our communities, especially children. We can’t go on like this. I have ordered urgent advice on their ban.”
Afterwards, she told The Sun: “Myself and Police Minister Chris Philp have commissioned urgent advice on options to increase public safety and ban their cultivation and sale.”
American bullies, including the XL breed, are responsible for 73 per cent of dog-related deaths in the UK from 2022, but make up a small percentage of the total dog population.
The number of attacks means British people are 270 times more likely to be killed by American bullies than any other breed, campaign group Bully Watch UK says.
Disturbing footage posted to social media on Saturday shows the XL-sized thug harassing a girl before going on a rampage at a man in Bordesley Green, Birmingham.
The horrifying footage, which the Home Secretary later shared online with a plea to remove the dogs, shows the animal savagely biting the girl’s arm.
The rambunctious dog was briefly restrained by a man in a green tank top, but then ran off and attacked another man wearing a white T-shirt, bum bag and shorts.
But as he tried to escape, the dog chased him to a Texaco gas station, causing him to fall.
West Midlands Police said: “An 11-year-old girl was bitten as she ran past a dog being walked by its owner.
“Two men intervened, but were bitten and left with shoulder and arm injuries. They were transported to the hospital.
“The dog was first taken to a local vet for a check-up before being taken to a sheltered kennel.
“Officers have spoken to the owner of the dog.”
As of 2021, there have been nine deaths related to XL thugs, three of which were children.
XL Bully are bred from a combination of dogs.
The main one is the American pit bull terrier, which was banned here in 1991.
However, underground breeders may mix legal pit bulls with other dogs.
A Sun on Sunday investigation earlier this year found unregistered breeders offering dogs online for as much as £2,500.
Bully Watch UK said: “Our research shows that US bully dogs are responsible for 44 per cent of all reported dog attacks since the start of the year, with Bully XL involved in 22 per cent of all attacks.”
There were 22,000 dog attacks causing injury in England and Wales last year, and 16,000 in 2018.
Former justice minister Robert Buckland backed the ban, saying: “I am deeply concerned about the rise in attacks on people, pets and livestock by XL bully dogs.”
Dog breeder Stan Rawlinson, 76, said: “These dogs are a danger to women, children and everyone else. Something is wrongly connected in them. They are incredibly powerful. They can open your jugular veins almost instantly.
“I wouldn’t approach any of them. I visited all kinds of dogs, even the most dangerous ones. But these XL thugs are very reactive.”
Elisa Allen, from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta), added: “It is an undeniable fact that the majority of serious and fatal dog attacks are committed by violent breeds.”
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Bully dog jumps up and grabs man’s back Credit: TikTok
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The man runs away but falls and is attacked again Credit: TikTok
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XL Bulls are bred from a combination of dogsCredit: Shutterstock
The list of dog deaths is growing
JACK Lis, ten years old, was one of nine people killed by XL thugs in the last two years.
A young man from Caerphilly was hacked to death at a friend’s house in November 2021.
In March 2022, Bella Rae-Birch, aged one, from St Helens, Merseyside, died after being injured at home by her family’s new dog.
Joanne Robinson, 43, was distraught when her dog “snapped”, in Rotherham, South Yorks, in July.
Then in August, Ian Symes, 34, was injured by his dog when he took it out for the first time in Fareham, Hants.
Widow Shirley Patrick, 83, died in December in a brutal attack in Caerphilly.
Natasha Johnston, 28, died when eight dogs she was paying to walk turned on her in Caterham, Surrey, on January 12 this year.
Also in January, four-year-old Alice Stones was murdered in Milton Keynes.
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