A man has been charged for kicking a Jack Russell dog in the face on a street in Liverpool after footage of the attack went viral.
Gavin Peter Doolan, from Aigburth, Merseyside, was charged with causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal four months after the kick was caught on camera.
In the video the 57-year-old is walking down the street with the pet on a lead before he kicks the small dog in the face.
The Jack Russell/Corgi cross is lifted into the air from the force of the kick in the shocking footage.
Gavin Peter Doolan, from Aigburth, Merseyside, has been charged after this video of him kicking a dog in the face went viral
In the shocking clip the 57-year-old is walking the Jack Russell/Corgi cross on a lead before kicking him. It went viral and several complaints were filed to the RSPCA and the police
The video was posted online in August and complaints to both the RSPCA and Merseyside Police quickly streamed in.
Fortunately for the dog, shop owner Michael Lamb adopted him and renamed him ‘Sconehead’.
At the time Doolan was not believed to be the owner of the dog.
A spokesperson for Merseyside Police told the Liverpool Echo: ‘We can confirm a man has been charged following reports a man kicked a Jack Russell dog on Park Road on 16 August 2017.
‘Gavin Peter Doolan, 57 years, of Waverley Road, Aigburth, has been charged with causing unnecessary suffering to a protected animal (Animal Welfare Act 2006) and using threatening/abusive words/behaviour or disorderly behaviour likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress (Section 5, Public Order Act).’
He is due to appear at Liverpool Magistrates Court on December 29, 2017.
The sheer force of the kick sends the dog into the air. A shop owner has since adopted the dog and renamed him ‘Sconehead’
Doolan is not believed to be the owner of the dog. He is due to appear at Liverpool Magistrates Court on December 29, 2017
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