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While staying at his
grandparents' house in the village in 1997 or '98, a boy aged 6 or 7 was
cycling up and down a lane which ran behind this and other houses, with a
field beyond it. As he began cycling back to the house, he was terrified by
a large black dog which ran after him. The gate to the house, which had been
open, was now shut, and the boy crashed into it, at which point the dog
vanished in front of him. The witness later described his feeling of "pure
terror", and that the incident will haunt him forever. |