Grandma Allowed Cops to Search Her Garden for a Drug Dealer & Their K9 Mauled Her to Death

[MrScorpio]

By Matt Agorist - September 18, 2018

Proving just how dangerous it can be to give police permission to search your property, a 73-year-old woman died after being mauled by a police K9. She had just given police permission to search her garden for an alleged drug dealer before the dog attacked her.

Irene Collins, who’d been battling lung cancer and emphysema, was attacked in her own home by the police officer’s German shepherd as Cleveland police searched her property for a drug dealer.

During the course of the search at her home in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, officer Mark Baines let his dog loose and it went inside the home of Collins.

“On 16 July 2014, officers from Cleveland police received information regarding a male suspect involved in a drug transaction. It was believed the suspect may be in a garden at the rear of Penrith Road,” assistant coroner Karen Welch said at the opening of the hearing this week, according to the Guardian.

“In the course of the search, a dog handler, PC [Mark] Baines, and his police dog Dano were brought in. Irene Collins gave permission for her garden to be searched and remained inside her home.

“You will hear that Dano gained access to Irene Collins’s home and bit her on more than one occasion. Police officers responded quickly and gave first aid. She was taken to James Cook University hospital, but despite the best efforts of medical professionals, she died on 20 July 2014.”

As TFTP reported in 2014, one neighbor reported that “she wasn’t bitten, she was mauled. A relative told me the dog had punctured and broken her arm, ripped her other arm, and then managed to bite off her calf muscle after it had been restrained.”

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/police-dog-kills-elderly-woman-search/?utm_medium=pushnotify&utm_source=browser&utm_campaign=pushfeeds&utm_content=push

[lark]

1. I'm an animal lover, but this dog has to be put down NOW!

His handler needs to be moved to another job, clearly not up to handling a dog, Depending on what actually happened, he might even need to be fired and charged.

[Hortensis]

13. She died in 2014. But yes.

[exboyfil]

15. Already put down according to the news report

I don't understand why these dogs are released. They are dangerous enough when on leash. They use the term prey drive. Apparently they will attack anyone who has sudden movements in their presence if they think it is the right scent.

[HipChick]

2. Good lord, I hope they are able to sue....

[malaise]

3. Good effin' grief

No!

[lunasun]

7. I think it's U.K.

[HopeAgain]

8. Ooops, you're right.

[MrScorpio]

9. It is.

What's interesting is just discovering that there's there's a Cleveland in the U.K.

[Wounded Bear]

10. Yeah, had to google it...

North Yorkshire is an English county in the North East. Cleveland County neighbors it to the north.

[Johnny2X2X]

5. Militarized police

They've turned their dogs into weapons. Police dogs can be a great asset, but it seems like more and more they are trained too much for violence, this dog should not have been on duty.

The police officer who was the dogs handler should be charged with a minimum of manslaughter.
The dog should be destroyed.
The commanding officer should be fired immediately.
The city should be sued.

[Wounded Bear]

11. Yeah, I didn't think drug sniffing dogs should be trained as attack dogs...

That's some bad shit there.

[bottomofthehill]

12. Searching for a drug dealer not drugs

This is a terrible story. Everything that went wrong could. An elderly woman trying to be helpful is dead, a dog thinking it is doing its job will be destroyed and a handler fucked up big time leading to the death of a person and a dog. Very sad story

[Johnny2X2X]

17. Very sad, but not surprising

The way they train police dogs has changed over the years, this dog was encouraged to bite and tear, where as police dogs used to be trained to bite and hold. This dog ripped her calf muscle off. With as much as the handlers work with their dogs, there is no way the officer didn't know that his dog would do this.

This happened in 2014 and the reason it's in the news now is because they are having hearings on it.

[Drahthaardogs]

14. These types of dogs are bred this way

And used to be more common twenty years ago. Now litters that produce dogs like this are mostly military only.

I am surprised he was on a police force. Most PDs don't want these types of dog and they are washed out and sent back to Germany or Czech Republic

[lunasun]

6. Do not understand where the handler was ? How the dog got inside? Why ?Wth?

“Dr Egan recorded at the time she would not have died when she did – notwithstanding her medical difficulties – had it not been for the dog bites,” Welch said.
I hope the inquest finally leads to some justice after 4 yrs

[bahrbearian]

16. Does the Drug Dealer get a Murder charge now? Thats how the police absolve themself here.