The jury convicted Warren on the charge by a majority of 11 to one, but cleared him of being in charge of another XL bully called Beauty, which also injured Ms Martin.<\/p>\n
The medical cause of her death was recorded as “dog bite wounds to the upper right limb”.<\/p>\n
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A jury heard Ms Martin, who was 5ft 3in tall, had limited mobility following a hip replacement and had suffered “dozens and dozens” of injuries in the attack, including a bite through the tissue of her arm and a “complete fracturing” of the bone.<\/p>\n
Warren, now of Addlestone, Surrey, had left her with the two XL bullies and eight puppies of the same breed, at his home in Hillman Avenue.<\/p>\n
The amateur rapper had asked Ms Martin to mind the animals so he could travel to London to film a music video.<\/p>\n
Warren had pleaded not guilty to being the owner of a dog – Bear – which caused injury resulting in death while dangerously out of control in a private place.<\/p>\n
He also denied being a person in charge of a dog – Beauty – which caused injury resulting in death while dangerously out of control in a private place.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n During the trial, at Chelmsford Crown Court, he said the XL bullies were “loving dogs” and were not “raised to attack or bite”.<\/p>\n The case was the first of its kind since new laws on owning XL bullies<\/a> came into effect at the start of 2024<\/a>, Essex Police said at the time.<\/p>\n An inquest hearing was previously told Ms Martin was found unresponsive and had sustained “unsurvivable” dog bite wounds.<\/p>\n Police had visited the property about an unrelated matter 11 days before the attack, and a video recording played to jurors showed Warren telling the officer “it’s a shame about the laws” and “my boy’s got papers already”.<\/p>\n Prosecutor Christopher Paxton KC said: “If that was a reference to an exemption certificate, that was a lie.”<\/p>\n Warren accepted in court he did not hold exemption certificates and he had not applied for any.<\/p>\n He said in evidence he had “never seen this coming in a million years” and said: “I would never have left Esther with the dogs if I thought they were dangerous.”<\/p>\n Warren was also found guilty of having a bladed article without good reason or lawful authority at Clacton railway station on 3 February 2024, after officers found a knife which he said was a prop in a music video he had been making that day in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been convicted over an XL bully attack that saw a 68-year-old woman mauled to death…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-434682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}