Attackers set dog on disabled patient

A dog is believed to have savaged a former Kimberley resident during an attack in which the victim was dragged out of bed, kicked repeatedly and "left to die" on the floor of his Levin community home.

Sergeant Simon Chamberlain said that after months of police investigations, police had reason to believe a dog may have been involved in the assault, inflicting a bite wound on the victim's tongue.

Police were not seeking the dog's destruction at this stage. MORE>>