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A MAN had his ear ripped off by a vicious XL Bully – after the banned breed pounced on him while he was asleep.
Darren Shuttleworth-Long was brutally attacked by the dog, which he was looking after, after he fell asleep on April 26.
To his horror, the 52-year-old awoke to discover the dog’s jaw locked underneath his armpit.
Pancaking, Darren managed to get the dog off him but the hound came back for more and launched a second attack on him.
During the second attack the XL Bully bit Darren’s right ear, ripping it off.
Darren finally struggled away from the out of control dog and was rushed to hospital.
He spent three days recovering from the horror attack in the ICU (intensive care unit) at Bristol’s Southmead Hospital.
Darren is currently waiting to have his ear reconstructed with plastic surgery.
Wiltshire Police have confirmed that a 24-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of being in charge of a dog dangerously out of control and causing injury.
She has been released on bail pending further inquiries while police probe the horrific attack.
Darren, from Swindon, Wiltshire, said: “I went to sleep and had the dog asleep next to me.
“I woke up and it had latched on the side of me. I managed to move it off.
“It attacked me again and hit me on the side.
“I crashed against the bedroom door and locked myself in with the dog.
“He was having a go on my right ear. He bit my ear off.
“He hit me about eight to ten times – I thought ‘I’m in serious trouble‘.”
Darren says the attack was unprovoked and lasted for an agonising ten minutes before he was luckily able to escape the dog.
He added: “My whole right side of my face was numb. There was blood everywhere.
“It was pouring out of me. It was like a horror movie. My whole face was covered in blood. Half my nose was hanging off.”
After arriving in hospital he had what was left of his savaged ear stitched up.
He said: “The tissue had to come off – there was nothing to attach it to.”
He has since been recovering from the attack and now struggles with going out.
He said: “I can’t go anywhere near big dogs now.
“It’s a long lasting stress that will be there for the rest of my life.
“Dogs barking sends cold chills through me.”
Darren is currently waiting for the soft tissue left on his ear to harden before he can have an appointment with a plastic surgeon to look at reconstruction.
THERE are specific regulations in place that prohibit certain dog breeds from being owned or bred in the UK.
So what are the illegal dogs in the UK and why are they illegal? Here’s what we know.
Which dog breeds are illegal in the UK?
People tend to think of large, vicious dogs when they imagine being bitten by one.
But the truth is that many types of dogs are known to bite humans, whether provoked or not.
However, it’s important to remember that just because a breed tends to bite humans, that doesn’t mean that they all do.
British law determines five breeds of dog are illegal to own, breed, sell or give away.
These are an XL Bully, Pit Bull Terrier, Japanese Tosa, Dogo Argentino and Fila Brasileiro.
TEMPLEGATE delivers his complete guide, tip and 1-2-3 prediction for the awesome Epsom Oaks below.
Nine of the finest three-year-old fillies in the land go to post for the prestigious Group 1 run over 1m4f.
He goes through each of the runners, rates them out of five stars and delivers his big-race tip at the bottom.
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Templegate’s Oaks runner-by-runner guide and ratings
DESERT FLOWER 4
FLOWER in bloom. Charlie Appleby’s filly has yet to taste defeat in five starts and kept that run going with a smooth success in the 1,000 Guineas on comeback.
She was a brilliant juvenile and took the Group 1 Fillies’ Mile by five lengths after the May Hill at Donny.
There’s little doubt she’s the best filly in the race with stamina the only question mark.
She wasn’t stopping at Newmarket and isn’t a keen sort so isn’t likely to pull her chance away.
At first glance, her breeding does seem to scream a mile and the softish ground may play to more of a stayer.
Despite that her class will take her close under William Buick who is a big-race jockey.
ELWATEEN 5
TEEN dream. We have only seen this daughter of Dubawi twice but she has created a big impression.
She won at Kempton on debut in August before Saeed Bin Suroor put her away.
Her next outing was a really promising fourth in the 1,000 Guineas where she was definitely doing her best work in the closing stages.
She was a little green when the pace hotted up and she will have learned plenty before being supplemented for this test.
Her dam stayed 1m2f strongly in soft ground so there’s every chance she’ll relish this trip.
Saeed is something of a forgotten trainer these days but he’s got two Oaks wins from his halcyon days so knows what it takes to win.
GISELLE 3
ELLE of a filly. She only had two rivals to beat in the Lingfield Oaks Trial on comeback last month but did it by nine easy lengths.
She handled the track so should be fine at Epsom too. She is one of the few in the field who has no stamina doubts and there’s a lot more to come.
She scored on dead ground as a juvenile and has a lively each-way chance for Aidan O’Brien.
GO GO BOOTS 2
KICK off Boots. Considering Oisin Murphy is on board for the Gosdens, she is big price for all she has a bit to find on form.
Her third in the Musidora at York last time was far from a disgrace.
She looked very much a work in progress on the Knavesmire and ran around a bit in the closing stages.
That’s not what you want to see before tackling tricky Epsom and she looks more suited to the Ribblesdale at Royal Ascot next month.
MINNIE HAUK 3
HAUK has to fly. Ryan Moore’s choice of the Aidan O’Brien trio crossed the line with plenty left when winning the Cheshire Oaks on comeback.
She will definitely come on for that run and is guaranteed to see out the extra furlong here.
Handling Chester often means Epsom will be fine too.
On the negative side, she didn’t beat a lot on the Roodee so will need to fine more form-wise although O’Brien runners often take a big step up for a run.
QILIN QUEEN 2
QUEEN won’t be crowned. She is progressing nicely for Ed Walker and battled all the way to win a Newbury Listed race last time.
That was on the nod from Revoir who also lines up today.
That was over 1m2f when she went from the front and just held on so stamina may be an issue.
Either way, it’s a fair leap to be winning a Classic on current form.
REVOIR 3
REVVED up. The line came a stride too soon when she finished second to Qilin Queen at Newbury last time but Ralph Beckett’s filly looks a hotter prospect.
She came home strongly so should be suited by this step up in distance and has improvement to come after just two starts.
In-form Beckett’s fillies often come on significantly for a run and she’s right in the each-way picture.
WEMIGHTAKEDLONGWAY 2
WAY out. Add an extra star if the ground is riding genuinely soft as she relished testing conditions when winning a Navan Group 3 over 1m2f last time.
That was a big improvement on her effort in the Ballysax on comeback where she looked a mile off Oaks standard.
She has a fair bit to find on form so needs that downpour.
WHIRL 4
GIVE it a Whirl. She may yet prove to be the best of the Aidan O’Brien runners after her easy Musidora win at York last time.
That has been a useful pointer to the Oaks and she had lots of running left at the end of 1m2f so stamina shouldn’t be an issue.
She seems to handle any ground and looks capable of improvement under Wayne Lordan.
Templegate’s Oaks tip and 1-2-3 prediction
SAEED Bin Suroor has got an El of a chance in the £570,000 Betfred Oaks.
ELWATEEN (4.00 Epsom, nap) caught the eye with a staying-on fourth in the 1,000 Guineas and can blossom over this longer trip.
She won’t mind a bit of cut in the ground and can go close at decent odds under Jim Crowley.
Desert Flower showed her class when winning the Guineas at Newmarket and will be hard to beat if lasting home — which isn’t guaranteed on pedigree.
Ryan Moore has chosen Minnie Hauk of the Aidan O’Brien trio but there isn’t much between her, Giselle and Whirl who all have each-way chances.
1st Elwateen
2nd Desert Flower
3rd Whirl
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BEN Shenton was just 18 months old when his mother gave him up to a well-spoken blonde woman who swore she’d give him the best life possible.
Little did she know her decision would put Ben through years of abuse at the hands of a woman who believed she was Jesus Christ reborn.
Images of Ben show a happy young boy, but the reality was entirely different – as the youngster was forced to become part of a notorious cult known as ‘The Family’.
Anne Hamilton-Byrne, who Ben would grow up to know as his mother, became the leader of the cult based in Australia, which drugged and beat him.
He had no idea of his life before Anne, as she went to great lengths to keep his adoption a secret, even bleaching his hair platinum blond like hers and his new ‘siblings’.
Despite abusing more than 20 children, including Ben, Anne and her husband and cult co-leader, Bill Hamilton-Byrne, never faced justice.
Now, over four decades on from the abuse, Ben shares his story of growing up in the “Kai Lama” compound, where children were locked in with barbed wire and tortured.
Anne first started out as a yoga teacher before turning to a more ‘spiritual life’ and eventually believing she was Jesus Christ reincarnated.
She was born with the name Evelyn and had three marriages in total – the first coming to an end when her husband died in a car crash, which led to her ‘spiritual awakening.’
She met English physicist Dr Raynor Johnson in 1963 and the following year, they set up a group dedicated to spreading a surreal combination of Christianity and Hinduism, with Hamilton-Byrne at its centre.
Her final husband, Bill, became the person who led the doomsday cult with her in the 1960s, when the world faced existential threats like nuclear warfare, the Vietnam War and the spread of communism.
Anne was able to rope people into the cult through yoga lessons, meetings at her house once a week, and then three times a week, until she built the compound on land near her house for them to move into.
Anne came across as beautiful, well-spoken and nurturing, so it’s no surprise Ben’s mum was easily convinced he’d have a better life with her.
Ben said Anne manipulated his mother into giving him up in 1970, convincing her that ‘only she could give me the best life possible’.
The pair consistently preyed on vulnerable people like Ben’s mum, Joy, who had suffered a back injury and felt she could not look after him anymore.
They also started recruiting people into their cult by approaching patients from Newhaven Hospital in Kew, a private psychiatric facility run and operated by various members of The Family, who targeted vulnerable patients, subjecting them to heavy doses of LSD and electroshock therapy.
She and husband Hamilton-Byrne took children through illegal adoptions, allowing the cult to grow in numbers before imprisoning them in a strict home-schooling environment at a rural property near Eildon in Victoria.
Using lawyers, social workers, and doctors to forgo official channels, they were able to forge birth documents and raise over a dozen children to believe they were the birth children of the Hamilton-Byrnes.
When children were born inside the compound to cult members, they were raised to believe their birth mothers were instead among a handful of “aunts”, who gave out brutal punishments for whatever they saw fit.
From the outside, the family looked picture-perfect as they lived on their compound in Victoria, Australia.
Life at Kai Lama seemed healthy and even advanced for its years; it featured yoga, exercise, vegetarian meals, meditation and education.
Ben lived on the remote property and was raised alongside dozens of other children for 13 years and recalls living with 28 other kids at one point.
“Growing up, it was Anne and Bill, they were mum and dad; and then there were foster kids, and they were kids of other sect members, who would either come up on weekends or stay there for stints of a couple of years,” Ben, told the BBC.
“The greatest amount of kids at any given stage was 28,” he added.
Anne and Bill brought up the children as their own, even dressing them in matching outfits and dying their hair bleach blond to appear like a real family.
I loved them in their little smocks and jeans and the long hair and ribbons.
Anne Hamilton-Byrne
“We were her children. We were different ages. We’d line up von Trapp style (like) The Sound of Music, which we’d watch, dressed in outfits that matched and that was just what we were asked to do,” he told the True Crimes Conversation podcast.
“You look back on that and you see it’s choreographed.
“It crafted a belief that she had these children, which she didn’t. We were all either adopted or handed over.”
In an interview years after the children were finally taken from her, Anne said: “I wanted them to look like brothers and sisters – I must admit this.
“I loved them in their little smocks and jeans and the long hair and ribbons. It was beautiful – it was lovely to see.”
Asked why she imprisoned 28 children over two decades, she responded: ‘I love children.’
But in reality, the children were subjected to years of beatings, mind games, isolation, and forced to take drugs by the cult leader, who had convinced more than 500 people she was Jesus Christ.
The couple had convinced their followers they were making a ‘master race’ while teaching a mixture of Christianity and Hinduism.
Ben recalls one form of torture Anne liked to perform on the children was waterboarding.
It’s a method of torture that creates such horrific psychological pain that its use has even been banned in the US military.
“We were all lined up. We were belted. Our head held under the bucket of water, interrogated,” he said.
“Held there until you thought you were suffocating, brought back out again.
“Horrendous experience. It caused nightmares.
“These things shape your personality.”
Ben recalls seeing his siblings being beaten with a belt, and says they were given LSD ‘as part of an initiation ritual.’
“I was watching her being belted with a buckle and she’s being beaten to the point where she’s wriggling out of her clothes,” he said of his sister, Sarah.
“Hearing her body smash across the balustrades – it was horrendous to know they had the power to do that and would do it,” he told the MailOnline.
She had this ability to be able to be so warm, so loving, so caring, and yet at the same time so manipulative.
Ben Shenton
Ben says Anne’s most effective tactic was to keep the children from forming bonds with each other to keep them all in line.
To weed out misdeeds in the children, Anne would perform group interrogations by beating them until someone came clean. Ben said he stayed compliant to avoid punishment.
“This was the evil genius of her. She understood that if she could separate us, isolate us, make it so that we couldn’t build relationships with one another and punish us, then she could control us,” he said.
“Anyone who’s lived under domestic violence will know the living with fear, the walking on eggshells, the currying favour of those in authority, or the absolute rejection of them, the hatred of them, the love-hate relationship.
“It’s domestic abuse on steroids,” he said.
Now, Ben believes Anne was a sociopath or psychopath.
“She had this ability to be able to be so warm, so loving, so caring, and yet at the same time so manipulative,” he said.
It wasn’t until 1987 that the cult was finally searched by 100 police officers and the children were rescued.
At the time, a 15-year-old Ben was doing his scheduled yoga class when police stormed in.
His sister, Sarah Moore, had managed to escape the cult at 17 and headed straight to the police to tell them what was going on.
Not taking any chances, police stormed the property and rescued six children, including Ben.
While he was reluctant to go with them at first, he soon realised this was his path to freedom.
He recalls: “I think I got this epiphanal moment, realising this is the ticket out of here. So I just I let go, and I went with them.”
It was only then that Ben found out he was not their biological son and was handed over by his mother Joy, who stayed in the cult as an ‘aunt’.
At the time, Anne was in Hawaii while Bill stayed on the compound, but he wasn’t arrested.
Later, he went to New York to meet Anne before the pair were arrested and extradited back to Australia.
While many of the children came forward with claims of abuse, both Anne and Bill were only charged with conspiracy to defraud and perjury by falsely registering the birth of triplets.
The pair were spared jail and fined just £2,300 each for the crime.
Detective Lex de Man, who investigated the case, says evidence of abuse was unable to be taken to court despite multiple victims coming forward.
Justice was not done.
Ben Shenton
Detective de Man recently told The Age: “My only regret is she was never held totally to account for the misery she caused to the former cult children.
“I have no sympathy for the woman I consider the most evil person I ever met in my police career.”
Ben moved into foster care when he left the cult, and while lying on his bunk bed with fresh pyjamas and a meal in his tummy, he realised he’d never go back to The Family again
“I realised then I (didn’t) have to do this anymore, I’m free. I don’t need to go back,” he said. “That, to me, was when I shut the door.”
Four decades on, Ben is a proud husband to Rajes and a dad to Ellie and Callum, who live in Perth, Australia.
He has written a book on his time in the cult, Life Behind the Wire, and runs the organisation, Rescue The Family, to raise awareness on cult manipulation.
In 2019, Anne passed away while in a Melbourne care home at the age of 98 and Ben has reconnected with his biological mother.
“What Anne did was evil. She used the name of Christ to give herself validity. She used a belief system,” Ben said.
“Justice was not done.”
WREXHAM are in line for a fourth-straight Hollywood season, according to a new Championship supercomputer.
But it’s bad news for former Premier League side Watford, who are pipped for relegation to League One for the first time in 48 YEARS.
Boffins at AceOdds booted up their intelligent PC, which simulates every single fixture 10,00 times for the most accurate score.
It estimates the outcome of games based on a team’s current strength (based on factors such as league position and form) and betting market odds.
And the results are astounding, with Wrexham, who became the first team to earn back-to-back-to-back promotions up the pyramid, have the chance to play for Premier League football.
The Red Dragons, once suffering a record 15-straight seasons in the National League before Hollywood actors Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney saved the day, are predicted to finish inside the play-off spots next season.
Linked with a host of big names, including Jamie Vardy and Ben Davies, Wrexham’s top-flight dreams remain alive – if they edge out Bristol City to sixth-place on goal difference.
Meanwhile, the clever AI algorithm reckons Southampton will go straight back up by winning the Championship.
The Saints, who hired former Lens boss Will Still after relegation this season, are set to face a dramatic title race with Sheffield United, who will finally earn automatic promotion at the second time of asking.
Fellow relegated sides Ipswich, Leicester and Frank Lampard‘s Coventry City are predicted to join Wrexham in making the play-offs.
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Tom Brady-backed Birmingham City, who recorded the most-ever EFL points last season (108), will also register an admirable top-half finish.
On 65 points, the Blues are set to finish ahead of neighbours West Brom and other established names such as Stoke City and Middlesbrough.
Meanwhile, Championship newboys Charlton Athletic are expected to avoid a return to League One, finishing six points above the drop.
In terms of the relegation places, Derby County and Hull City join Watford in the dreaded drop to the third-tier.
Watford last played in League One (then known as the Football League Third Division) during the 1977-78 season.
Derby finished 19th last year, while Hull are pipped to finish rock-bottom after just about saving themselves on the final day this season, after Luton lost to West Brom.
While the supercomputer thinks the likes of Preston, QPR, Boro and Oxford United will narrowly survive.
And Norwich, Millwall, Blackburn, Sheffield Wednesday and Swansea will finish a respectable mid-table.
