Overview
- The child, Jonte William Bluck, was bitten by a family dog at his father's home in Crossway, Rogiet, on November 2 and died before reaching Grange University Hospital.
- A post-mortem gave a provisional cause of death of compressive head injury consistent with a dog bite.
- Police arrested a man in his 30s and a woman in her 20s from Rogiet on suspicion of being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control causing death and of child neglect, and both were released on bail.
- The animal was a six-year-old male XL Bully registered with Defra under a 2024 exemption, and it was seized and put down after the incident.
- Gwent Police described the case as a live criminal inquiry, urged people not to speculate, and asked anyone with information about the dog or its prior behaviour to come forward.