Police dog credited with saving life

Police dog Ryka Junior may have saved a woman's life when his bite halted a brutal domestic bashing at a New Brighton house.

That's the view of Judge Lindsay Moore, who told a man being sentenced that he "owed a great gift of thanks" to the police dog handler and his dog.

"If they hadn't intervened I would have thought your chances of spending much less than the next decade in prison would have been remarkably small."

Judge Moore jailed Jason Lee Ramsay for 18 months on charges of intentionally injuring his partner, assaulting her with a weapon, and breaching a protection order that had been in place for years.

For YEARS... what hell she has to live in. I'd probably move out of NZ!

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