Love Island star Jack Fincham jailed for six weeks after dog bit a runner
Love Island star Jack Fincham jailed for six weeks after dog bit a runner
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Former Love Island winner Jack Fincham has been jailed at Southend Magistrates' Court for six weeks for dangerous dog offences after his black Cane Corso bit a runner. The 32-year-old, who won the 2018 series of the ITV2 show with Dani Dyer, gave a thumbs up as he was led to the cells at Southend Magistrates’ Court as a woman in the public gallery wept.
Mr Fincham was also ordered to pay £3,580 to the courts, including a £200 compensation fee to the victim. The TV star became embroiled in legal trouble after his dog, named Elvis, bit a man in Grays, Essex in June last year. Fincham, of Swanley in Kent, pleaded guilty to two counts of being in charge of a dangerously out of control dog, with one of the incidents causing injury.
Prosecutor Erin Peck said that Fincham’s dog bit a runner, a man called Robert Sudell, in September 2022 in Swanley in Kent. She said that Mr Sudell had accepted an apology and Fincham was going to be cautioned and engage with a responsible dog ownership course.
She said conditions were made including that his dog must be muzzled, but in June last year there was a second incident in Grays in Essex when his dog was out of control and he was later charged. Presiding magistrate Anne Wade, sentencing, said that Fincham was subject to a suspended sentence order at the time of the incident in Swanley in Kent.
