A Staffordshire bull terrier that mauled its owner to death
while taking part in a BBC documentary had eaten a stash of crack
cocaine, an inquest was told. The dog, named Major, repeatedly bit the
throat and face of its owner Mario Perivoitos, an IT expert, in front of
a two-man crew from the BBC show Drugs Map Britain shortly after
filming. The crew managed to lock the dog in another room and call an
ambulance but Mr Perivoitos died at the scene. The animal was found to
have taken enough drugs to put a human eight times over the drug-drive
limit. North London coroner’s court was told that Mr Perivoitos, 41, was
a heroin user and had suffered an epileptic fit before the dog…
A Staffordshire bull terrier that killed its owner by crushing his
larynx in its jaws in front of a BBC documentary crew had probably taken
crack cocaine, an inquest has heard. The dog’s owner, Mario Perivoitos,
died at his home in Wood Green, north London, after losing 10 pints of
blood, in an incident in March that was seen but not filmed by BBC
journalists making a programme about drugs. An inquest at North London
coroner’s court heard that the behaviour of the dog, called Major, could
have been triggered by crack cocaine. Nicholas Carmichael, a veterinary
toxicologist, told the inquest that samples indicating high levels of
cocaine and morphine were discovered in the dog’s urine. Mail Online ...
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