Almost two years to the day after 86-year-old Betty Ann Williams was mauled to death in a dog attack, the dog owner is back in court trying to keep them all from being put down.
A Calgary judge handed out the maximum penalty to a Calgary pet owner whose dogs were behind a fatal attack two years ago. It happened in Capitol Hill, where an 86-year-old woman was mauled to death in her back alley.
“It’s a very tragic file, we are not a court of emotions. We are a court of law,” Rabie Ahmed told Justice Bruce Fraser in the civil hearing. The court heard that the woman’s wounds were grievous: multiple cuts and bruises to her head and neck. The vertebrae just below her skull fractured, as was the bone under her jaw. There were injuries to her jugular vein branches and carotid artery, bruises on her legs and cuts on her arms.Neighbour Nicola Opsal told the court she knew Williams for 25 years. She choked back tears as she recounted running to the alley that day when she heard a cry for help.“I saw some dogs and a person.
“I did not see them physically attack the person because I wasn’t that close,” said Opsal. “But they were there and there were injuries.”City lawyer Ed Ring said there was enough evidence the other two dogs were a danger and had likely taken part in the attack to seek an order for destruction of the dogs.Bagaric has already been fined $18,000 and prohibited from pet ownership for 15 years.
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