SERGEANT Ian Wilkinson told the Argus yesterday he was pleased King faced a prison sentence.
He said: "King is a very dangerous and violent man who deserves to be kept off the streets.
"He would have done anything to try and escape from myself and PC Griffiths that night as he clearly showed.
"I only hope that the sentence he receives will be appropriate for what he has done and that he goes to prison where he belongs."
Detective Constable Lyndon Hawker, from Pontypool CID and who led the case against King, said that the Staffordshire pit bull terrier who had carried out the attack had not been put down. "After all the dog was only carrying out the instructions of its master so it wasn't to blame for what happened."
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