11th December 2009

I was up at 4.30am.  I am appearing at Crown Court as the expert for a dog case today. There was a destruction order on the dog and something in the paperwork that I had been reading woke me early as it didn’t tie up in my opinion so I spent a few more hours going back through all the information and photographs I had been sent.  I obviously can’t really go in to details but Crown Court is an alarming experience if you are faint hearted. Fortunately I am not and Tina and I did have a couple of funny moments. The first was on the Park and Ride Bus when we asked which would be the nearest stop to the street we needed to get to.  ‘Oh that’s where the Courts are’, the driver said.  I replied ‘Indeed, that is where we are going.’  The look on his face was hilarious, a combination of shock mixed with a hint of nervousness and I had to assure him that we did require returns, not two one way tickets.  The second was on entering the lift at the Court House.  An alarm sounded and a recorded voice told us in no certain terms to get out, get out, as the lift was overloaded.  The lift was huge, we were the only people in it and we hadn’t even eaten breakfast at that point.

The Judge and the Magistrates were wonderful and watched my video assessment of the dog and read through my report.  After being grilled by the Prosecution for what seemed like an age, judgement was served and the Destruction Order was lifted.  There were tears of relief all round.  This case had been hanging over me for a month, as it had for the dog’s owner and I am so, so happy that we got the just result that we all so desperately wanted. Brilliant.

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