Gwent Police's Monmouthshire Neighbourhood Policing Team has seized two unregistered XL bullies after house searches in Abergavenny. The force posted on X, saying: "The Monmouthshire Neighbourhood Policing Team have conducted two house searches in Abergavenny in the past 7 days and have seized 2 unregistered XL Bullies." XL bullies were officially added to the list of dogs banned under the Dangerous Dogs Act on October 31, 2023.
From December 31, it became illegal to breed, sell, advertise, rehome or abandon an XL bully dog. Since February 1 this year, it has been illegal to own an XL bully dog without a certificate of exception. When Rishi Sunak's Conservative Government announced the ban, it said the breed had been "disproportionately involved" in deaths recorded since 2021.
One of those deaths was 10-year-old Jack Lis from Caerphilly , who died in November, 2021, after being mauled to death by an out of control XL bully named Beast while he was at a friend's house. The owner of the dog, Brandon Hayden, was jailed for four years and six months but has recently been released from prison. Read more: Boy in hospital after being 'dragged like rag doll' in XL Bully attack Read more: Luxury car dealer ransacked and thousands worth of cars stolen Jack's mother, Emma Whitfield, told WalesOnline: "“We knew this release would be now because that’s what happens - people serve half a sentence and then they’re out on licence.
Hayden’s sentence was never enough to begin with but .