Man jailed for stabbing dog

Press, 26 December 1984, Page 8

Man jailed for stabbing dog

PA Auckland The man who stabbed a police dog, Sarge, to death has been jailed for three years. ' Judge Gilbert, in the District Court at Auckland, said it was up to the prison authorities whether Borrodale Harrison; aged 39, stayed in jail or went to another institution. Harrison, unemployed, of One Tree Hill, Auckland, was sentenced to nine months jail for aggravated cruelly to the dog and on a

charge of having a knife at the Penrose Employment Centre. He was sentenced to three years jail on three charges of threatening to do grievous bodily harm to people. The terms are to be served concurrently. Harrison had pleaded guilty to the five charges. The Court earlier heard that Harrison went to the employment office in October and asked for money he thought he was owed. He threatened to cut a Labour 'department clerk’s throat

and waved a 15cm sheath knife at another. Harrison then stabbed the police dog near the heart. Harrison’s counsel, Mr Aaron Perkins, said his client had a dual personality.He was a good worker, an extremely loyal husband, and a likeable person, but he had relapses and the other side of his personality then came out. Harrison was diagnosed as suffering from paranoid psychosis in 1980 and a recent report showed a relapse, ME Perkins said.