Brown also admitted possession of cannabis and owning a dog dangerously out of control in a private place in St Leonards on May 16.
He was released on conditional bail to live at an address outside Sussex and will appear at Lewes Crown Court for sentencing on a date to be fixed.
Unemployed Spencer Brown, 21, St Leonards, East Sussex, admitted six counts of owning a dog which was dangerously out of control in a public place, at Hastings Magistrates’ Court today.
Brown also admitted possession of cannabis and owning a dog dangerously out of control in a private place in St Leonards on May 16.
He was released on conditional bail to live at an address outside Sussex and will appear at Lewes Crown Court for sentencing on a date to be fixed.
Another man, 22, who was arrested at the scene on Sunday, has been released without charge.
The dogs, which were described as foaming at the mouth, left a trail of blood in their wake. Witnesses were so scared they stood on car roofs or sheltered indoors.
Police marksmen were called in and helped subdue one dog while five locals managed to drive the other into an animal cage.
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| The drama happened when two dogs escaped from a garden and ran amok in Marline Road, St. Leonards-on-Sea, near Hastings, pictured |
Both dogs had often been seen wandering off the leash. Sussex Police has applied for a destruction order for the dogs which are being held in secure kennels out of the county.
The incident began shortly before 9pm on Sunday on a housing estate in St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex.
A child was attacked first but fought the dogs off with his scooter and the pair turned instead on a man walking home from the shops.
Sharon Mosley and her daughter, 30-year-old Claire Brooker, were bitten when they stopped their car to help the man.
A pensioner was the next victim and, again, those who rushed to her aid were mauled.
Among the injured was David Noakes, 46, who ran out of his home when he heard barking and screaming. He led the attack on one dog, holding it to the ground on its back by its collar and hindquarters even while the other beast was biting deep into his right leg. He had to go to hospital for stitches.
‘I heard a woman screaming, saw the black and the brown dogs running around, and went to check what was happening,’ he said.
‘They’d already bitten about five people – so I just grabbed the brown one. I’m a dustman, and I know how to handle dogs, so I grabbed the collar with one hand and twisted it, and grabbed it by the tail with the other hand, and turned it over on to its back.
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| David Noakes, 46, showing a wound inflicted by one of the dogs in an attack in Hastings, on the south coast |
‘I had hold of it when the black one came and bit my leg. It ripped my shorts to bits. Just after that the black dog let go of my leg and a policeman fired a fire extinguisher at it. We then managed to get the brown dog into a dog cage, and I left in an ambulance.’
Another local hero was waiter Robert Glisson, 22, whose elderly neighbour was being chased by the dogs.
Mr Glisson said: ‘I put myself between her and them, and one jumped up and bit my leg – then they tore into her shopping trolley. It was horrific. She was very shaken. I’ve never seen anything like it – the dogs were so vicious. If there’d been children around there could have been fatalities.’
The two dogs are now being kept in secure kennels.
The three most seriously injured victims were being treated last night at the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead.
Heather Keating, Hastings district police commander, said: ‘This was an incredibly distressing incident and quick work from members of the public and officers at the scene meant that the incident was quickly brought under control. Firearms officers were deployed to the incident but they were stood down when it became clear that the unarmed officers were able to get the dogs under control safely.’
Last year two dogs with the same description – Staffordshire terriers or pit bulls – were reported to be out of control in a Hastings park.
(Daily Mail UK - July 23, 2012)
