A pensioner banned from keeping dogs for 10 years after allowing a pack of Staffordshire bull terriers to carry out two Angus attacks has been charged with defying the order.
Fiona Borders from Brechin was back in the dock at Forfar sheriff court on Tuesday accused of having a Staffie or similar breed at her home just over two weeks after she was found guilty of charges under the Dangerous Dogs Act.
The fresh charge alleges that 76-year-old Ms Borders, of Montrose Street, Brechin, contravened the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 Section 4 (8)a on May 11 at her home address by having a dog in her custody, having been disqualified from keeping dogs for 10 years on April 25.
Ms Borders appeared on undertaking before Sheriff Valerie Johnston and represented herself for the first calling of the case. She told the sheriff she was pleading not guilty and a trial date of June 23 was fixed.
The case will call again at an intermediate diet in Forfar on June 5.
In April, following a two-day trial before Sheriff Kevin Veal at Forfar, Ms Borders was convicted of three charges under the Dangerous Dogs Act in relation to offences in Brechin and Montrose.
Those included incidents in which two male pensioners out walking their own pets were surrounded by Borders’ four dogs and were then subjected to what were described as “ferocious and vicious” attacks.
The young dogs involved in those incidents were taken from the accused the day after the last of the attacks in mid-February.
During her trial the accused told the court her pets were only being “friendly”.