This is the horror moment a police officer was savaged by an out-of-control XL Bully living inside a thug's home. The Leicestershire Police officer was left with serious injuries after being brutally attacked by the dog at a property in Ibstock. Shocking body-cam video showed the officer scream in pain and the dog sank its teeth around his inner thigh and refused to let go for a whole minute. The unnamed cop had attended the address in Lewis Close with a colleague wanting to speak to Aden Hollyoake, 33, on October 26, 2023. Hollyoake’s partner Shanell Lawrence, 26, answered the door and let the officers in, saying there were dogs in the house but they were "fine to come inside.".

Less than a minute inside later, one of the dogs pushed open the closed kitchen door before charging through the lounge and attacking the officer. His colleague, who had been stood behind, discharged his cannister of Captor, an incapacitant spray, in an attempt to stop the dog- but this proved unsuccessful. The snarling animal finally let go after almost a minute of biting and Lawrence moved him into the back garden as the officers escaped through the front door. One officer can be heard radioing for help, saying: "Quick I need an ambulance, close that door now.".

Nearby colleagues rushed to the scene to provide immediate first aid to the injured officer. He was later taken to hospital where he had an operation to repair and stitch four bite wounds to his leg. The fellow officer sustained a small laceration to his finger. Following the incident, the XL bully was removed from the property alongside another dog which was in a crate in the kitchen at the time of the incident.

Tests later confirmed this dog to be a pit bull terrier which is a banned breed within the UK. Both dogs currently remain in secure kennels. Lawrence and Hollyoake, who was not home at the time of the attack and owns both the dogs, were later arrested and interviewed. Lawrence suggested in interview the dog had only attacked the officer as they were strangers in the house and denied the dog had acted dangerously. In his interview, Hollyoake also denied the XL bully dog was dangerous and he did not know his other dog was a pit bull.

He said he believed it was an XL bully. He had the XL bully legally registered and microchipped but not the pit bull which he had owned for over a year. Lawrence was charged with being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control and being in possession or custody a dog to which section 1 of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 applied, namely a pit bull type. Hollyoake, of no fixed abode, was also charged with possession or custody a dog to which section 1 of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 applied, namely a pit-bull type. Both pleaded guilty to all charges at Leicester Magistrates’ Court in September last year.

Lawrence was handed a 12-month community order and Hollyoake was jailed for two years and three months at Leicester Crown Court on Friday. Hollyoake’s sentence included separate convictions for driving whilst disqualified, dangerous driving, driving without insurance and possession of a controlled drug which he previously admitted. Detective Constable James Highton, who was the investigating officer, said: “The footage is extremely shocking and distressing, but we have chosen to release part of it, with the permission of the officers involved, to show what can happen when dogs are not kept under the right control and the risk and harm which can be potentially caused.

"There was speculation online at the time of the incident that the officers had acted unlawfully and forced their way into the address, which lead to comments from the public that it was ‘no surprise that they were attacked’. This footage clearly shows that was not the case. “While Lawrence told the officers she had dogs in the house and they were away in the kitchen, she also clearly said ‘you’re fine to come in’ so they entered the address on the understanding it was safe.

“She admitted in her interview that the XL bully dog had previously to managed to open the kitchen door and gain access to the lounge, so she had not secured the dog as she later claimed, especially when you consider that the dog has a crate in the kitchen that she could have put him in. “The simple fact is that she didn’t secure the dog properly and when he got into the lounge, she was not able to control him and prevent him attacking the officer in what is clearly horrendous and terrifying attack.

“Officers have a right that every day they come to work and carry out their duties safely and to not be faced with such an attack. You can hear the shock and panic in his voice in his video and the absolute determination by his colleague to help free him. “He had to take a month off work to physically recover and has been left weary of dogs especially larger dogs and when entering homes as part of his work. Not only has the incident had a lasting effect on him but also his colleague who was with him and managed to avoid any serious injury.