The nine-month-old baby who died after being attacked by his family’s XL Bully has been named.

Jonte William Bluck sustained serious head injuries after being mauled by his family’s dog while in the care of his father, 30-year-old Jarrod Bluck, for the weekend in Rogiet, Gwent.

Area coroner Rose Farmer told the inquest that Jonte died before reaching the hospital on November 2, with a provisional cause of death listed as a compressive head injury consistent with a dog bite.

The six-year-old male black dog was seized and later put down. Following Jonte’s death, a man in his 30s and a woman in her 20s were questioned on suspicion of being in charge of the ‘dangerously out of control dog’ that savaged the baby boy.

After also being questioned over alleged child neglect, they were released

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