Overview

• Lisa Grant, 56, pleaded guilty at Caernarfon Crown Court to owning a dog dangerously out of control causing serious injury and received an eight‑month term suspended for 12 months.
• She was banned indefinitely from keeping animals and ordered to complete 15 days of rehabilitation activity.
• The November 17, 2023 attack at Top Rhos Farm in Rhoshirwaun injured multiple people, with the court hearing that one victim had life‑threatening and life‑changing injuries and others face lasting physical and psychological harm.
• Wales Air Ambulance pilot Captain Jon Earp, after consulting a police inspector, borrowed a neighbouring farmer’s shotgun and fired four times to stop the dog, with the first shot having no effect.
• Judge Nicola Jones said the dog, Ricoh, was “relentless,” praised the pilot’s actions as life‑saving, and noted that Grant was later rehoused by Adra while her other dogs were rehomed by the RSPCA.