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Irishman savaged while alone in flat after row
CUP CURPHEW
By PHIL HARRISON
AN Irishman was killed
by his girlfriend’s out-of-
control bull terrier, an
inquest has heard.
Barry Walsh, 43, suf-
fered a number of bites
after being left to look
after the Staffordshire
dog in Essex, England.
He was found lying dead on
a mattress with a number of
puncture wounds to his legs
when partner Purdy Clarke
returned to the home two
days later.
Yesterday coroner Caroline
Beasley-Murray recorded an
open verdict at Chelmsford
Coroners’ Court. She said:
“This was a sudden unex-
pected death and raised all
sorts of questions. We will
never, ever be entirely clear
what happened.”
Det Supt Lucy Morris con-
firmed the dog, called Gypsy,
had previously been the sub-
ject of a court order for
being dangerously out of con-
trol in a public place.
Officers described the dog
as “running riot in the
premises” when they attended
following a 999 call in Janu-
ary this year.
Det Morris continued: “The
injuries were very severe.
Dog owner Ms Clarke told
the court how she discovered
the body of her boyfriend
after returning to the flat
following an argument two
days earlier.
She said: “We’d had a row
and I f***ed off. When I went
back he was dead.”
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Christopher Gallagher, 19, is to be sentenced for
possession of cannabis with intent to supply on Novem-
ber 10. But a Derry Crown Court judge yesterday
granted his plea to travel to Dublin eight days before-
hand to see the match against St Patrick’s Athletic.
Seconds to live . . . an IS fighter and flag
AN airstrike devastates an area
where, just moments earlier,
Islamic State militants were spotted
beside their notorious black flag.
The strike on Tilsehir hill near
the Turkish border was carried out
by the anti-IS coalition as part of
an operation to help besieged Syr-
ian Kurdish fighters in Kobani.
A senior Syrian Kurd official yes-
terday denied claims by Turkey’s
President Tayyip Erdogan they had
agreed to let 1,300 Free Syrian
Army fighters enter Kobani to help
defend it against IS militants.
Turkey has been resisting calls to
join the US-led coalition against IS
— but after mounting pressure
from its Western allies, Erdogan
said this week some Kurdish Pesh-
merga fighters from Iraq would be
allowed to enter Kobani via Turkey.
Horror . . . a Staffordshire
MAULED TO DEATH BY
HIS GIRLFRIEND’S DOG
MORE than 10,000
aquatic beauties
vied for the title of
Miss Goldfish this
week, with the win-
ners now worth up
to (1,600 in China’s
Fujian province.
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