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DOG MAULING SPECIAL REPORT:
Grandmother: Owner Got What He Deserved
Weds 4th July 2012 , Yellow Advertiser

THE GRANDMOTHER of the seven-year-old boy mauled by a Rottweiler in Southend has said owner Rowan Diedrick deserved his jail sentence.

Speaking after Diedrick was jailed for 16 months, she said: “I thought the judge was very sound.

“Although we didn't start out wanting or expecting Mr Diedrick to have a long sentence, I think the way he conducted himself throughout the course of the trial, he deserved what he got.

“He didn't show very much remorse and he's only got himself to blame.

“I saw on the internet that outside the courthouse he said all the lies that had been told about him would come out in the court.

“I thought that was rather silly on his part. It completely backfired on him.

“The things Diedrick said were not only in conflict with what we said, but what he said too. There was no consistency to what he said.

“If he had just shown some humility and remorse, he might have got such a long sentence.”

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