{"id":536165,"date":"2026-04-17T15:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/536165\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:22:10","slug":"xl-bully-owner-jailed-after-man-84-fatally-mauled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/536165\/","title":{"rendered":"XL bully owner jailed after man, 84, fatally mauled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Garner, who has previous convictions for driving and drugs offences, pleaded guilty before his trial to two counts of owning an XL bully without an exemption certificate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Birrell said: &#8220;The defendant has convictions which reveal a history of reckless disregard for the law and for safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;At the time of this incident, despite operating a recovery business driving up and down the country, he was disqualified from driving.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lloyd Morgan, defending, said: &#8220;Sean Garner does express his deepest sympathy to the family of Mr McColl for the loss, and the manner of the loss, of their beloved family member.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said Garner was the primary carer for his partner Lauren Lawler, who had been diagnosed with stage three Hodgkin&#8217;s lymphoma and, when she was ill, he cared for their children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garner, who has previous convictions for driving and drugs offences, pleaded guilty before his trial to two counts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":536166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-536165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536165","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=536165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}