Man offered injured parties compensation after dog attack near Kildare/Wicklow border
The dogs attacked a 13-year-old girl
A DOG owner told a court last week that he has paid a donation to a canine charity and was willing to pay compensation to injured parties after his two dogs attacked them.
Evidence about the incident involving two Belgian Shepherd dogs belonging to Florin Veres was heard at a sitting in March. Judge Geraldine Carthy was told that Mr Veres’s dogs had attacked a 13-year-old girl and were “barking and snapping” at her and her sister and when their father intervened, he was bitten by one of the dogs.
Mr Veres, 15 Fairgreen Manor, Dunlavin subsequently pleaded guilty to having uncontrolled dogs and to having dogs without leashes during the incident, which occurred at Fairgreen Manor on 8 June last year.
The case at Carlow District Court had been adjourned for preparation of a probation report and last week solicitor John O’Sullivan told the judge that Mr Veres had donated €300 to the Dogs Trust charity and that he was willing to pay a sum of money to the injured parties.
Judge Carthy said the investigating garda should contact the injured parties and offer them €3,000 by way of compensation.
She then adjourned the case again for the defendant to gather the money and put the matter back to 11 June.
