Killer dog Le Roc to die

Killer dog Le Roc to die

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): A killer Rottweiler, which underwent two months of police rehabilitation after being spared by the court, is now to die as it was found to harbor a hatred of women, local reports said yesterday.

"The federal investigation department director Mohamaed Said Awang has now given the go-ahead to put Le Roc to sleep as it has failed to respond to the rehabilitation," the New Straits Times English daily reported.

Le Roc, a three-year-old, fatally attacked a 70-year old woman neighbor, Neoh Kim Lean, while she was taking a morning stroll on Sept. 21 last year. It was sent to be trained as a police dog after a lawyer appealed an Oct. 5, 1994 court order to have it destroyed.

During one training session, instead of lunging at "a thief" who was making his getaway after grabbing a handbag from a woman constable posing as the victim, the 13.5-kilogram dog attempted to pounce on the policewoman, the report said.