Judge arrested after after alleged dog attacks

12 April 2012

A judge has been arrested and had her dogs seized by police after a third alleged attack in a year.

Beatrice Bolton, 57, was questioned and bailed following an incident near her home at Rothbury, Northumberland last week.

She has not sat at Newcastle crown court since December when she was convicted at Carlisle of failing to control her German shepherd Georgina.

Bolton was fined £2,500 after it attacked her 20-year-old neighbour.

Postman Kenneth Auld was also bitten.

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