Rowley Regis
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| Weather | 11°C, Wind SW at 16 km/h, 73% Humidity |
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| Metropolitan county | West Midlands |
| Hotels | View hotels |
| Population | 50,257 (2011) |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Local time | Monday 09:48 |
| Dialling code | 0121; 01384 |
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| ID | 2953975 |
About Rowley Regis
Rowley Regis is a town and historic parish as well as a former municipal borough, in the Birmingham region of the West Midlands, England. Considered one of the six 'towns' that comprise the modern-day Sandwell Metropolitan Borough, it encompasses the wards of Blackheath, Cradley Heath and Old Hill, and Rowley Village.
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Guilty plea over Rowley Regis dog attack which killed Lucille Downer
By Allen CookBBC News, West Midlands
A man has pleaded guilty to being in charge of two dangerously out of control dogs which killed an 85-year-old woman.
Lucille Downer was fatally attacked by The American bulldogs after they got into her garden in Rowley Regis in the West Midlands in 2021.
Darren Pritchard, of Merrivale Road, Smethwick, admitted an offence under The Dangerous Dogs Act at Wolverhampton Crown Court .
He will be sentenced on 15 May.
The 44-year-old also pleaded guilty to possessing cannabis with intent to supply and producing the drug at an address on The Street where Mrs Downer was pronounced dead after suffering a neck wound.
Pritchard was granted bail by Judge Michael Chambers who told him he would receive credit for his guilty pleas.
" But they are clearly serious matters which cross the custodial threshold so you should be under no illusion as to the likely sentence, " he added.
The dogs got into Mrs Downer's garden in Boundary Avenue through a hole in a fence on 2 April.
West Midlands Police the retired cook, but she died from " multiple" injuries.
Her family said she was A Mother , grandmother and great-grandmother who had been born in Jamaica and arrived in the UK in her early 20s.
" Since arriving in the UK, Rowley Regis has always been her home and her family will miss her dearly, " they said in a statement at The Time .
The dogs, which were not a banned breed in the UK, were " humanely destroyed" as they could not be rehomed.
The facts of the case were not opened by prosecutor Howard Searle during The Court hearing, which was told Pritchard had been " out of trouble since 2013" at The Time of Mrs Downer's death.
Related TopicsSource of news: bbc.com
