Man stole car after 3 dogs attacked girl

A MAN accused of owning three rottweilers who mauled a ten-year-old girl, yesterday told a court that he stole a car from his work and raced to the scene of the attack despite being banned from driving.

Derek Adam – who was disqualified for a year for drink driving – had been valeting the car at a workshop near Dundee city centre when he said he was called by his son who told him his dogs had escaped.

He told a trial at Dundee Sheriff Court that he and his former lover, and now co-accused, Sarah Kerr’s 13-year relationship had hit the rocks after she caught him cheating with another woman. But he said that at the time of the attack they were attempting to reconcile and that he had moved back into the family home in Dundee.

Adam told the court he had no doubt that Kerr was in charge of the dogs at the time.

The court has heard how the dogs roamed the streets of the Dryburgh area of Dundee before dragging the girl from her bike. She was pulled into the middle of the road before being repeatedly bitten.

The ten-year-old was left with permanent scars from multiple bite marks, as well as a broken jaw and gaping wounds on her legs.