POLICE are appealing for witnesses to an incident on Sunday, September 28 at approximately 4.15pm in Bettysmead playing fields.
A young man was bitten by a German Shepherd-type dog as he was skateboarding through the playing fields.
He was bitten on the thigh in what appears to be an unprovoked attack, where the dog crossed the couple walking it to go for the youth on his skateboard.
The couple walking the dog are described as a white male and female in their 30s who also had a young child of toddler age with them.
If anyone has any information about the identity of the dog owners or was in the park at roughly that time on Sunday then they are urged to contact the police non-emergency number, quoting the crime reference number CR/110265/14.
