No plea from man charged over fatal dog attack

ROTORUA - A Murupara man has appeared in Rotorua District Court over the fatal dog attack on Virginia Ohlson.

Shane Joseph Rurehe, 43, unemployed, entered no plea today to two charges laid under the Dog Control Act for owning dogs which caused serious injury.

He was remanded at large to reappear in court on July 4.

Ms Ohlson, 56, was attacked at Murupara by two bull mastiff cross dogs, named Malibu and Patu, on April 21 while walking to meet a friend.

She died in an ambulance on her way to Rotorua Hospital from trauma suffered from her injuries.

- NZPA