When existence walked a single evening inside April 1992, muzzled and leashed in accordance using a law, she was taken infected, & a individual walking her (world health organization was non her creator) experienced to dislodge her muzzle therefore she can be sick. This was spotted by deuce pass policemen.

3 months late, at Ealing Magistrates' Court, Dempsey was sentenced to death under a Dangerous Dogs Work for existence publicly unmuzzled.

Dempsey was so put per police force into secret kennels for three years, in a period of which various legal appeals took place at the Crown Court, the High Court and even the House of Lords. A outbreak was extensively reported per British & international media, & potentially taken higher by actress-turned-creature rights candidate Brigitte Bardot, who offered Dempsey sanctuary around France to escape British injustice.

A example was eventually dismissed around November 1995 on a legal technicality, namely that Dempsey's creator — world health organization experienced non been exposed in the original incident & bizarrely was non told all about it until yearn later on — did non understand all about a 1st court out break within advance. Dempsey was reprieved, & went in to survive to the age of Xvii.