Pair cleared following death of baby in dog attack near Peterborough
Reuben McNulty was attacked by the dog at his home in Yaxley, Cambridgeshire, in the early hours of November 18 2018.
He died in hospital on December 13, aged five weeks old.
A man and woman were questioned by police.
A Cambridgeshire Police spokesman said on Wednesday: “After extensive joint working between the Crown Prosecution Service and Cambridgeshire Constabulary, the 30-year-old woman and 33-year-old man, both from Yaxley, who were arrested on suspicion of child neglect have been released with no further action to be taken.”
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Hide AdAt an inquest, which was opened and adjourned in January 2019, Cambridgeshire’s senior coroner David Heming said Reuben “suffered catastrophic injuries… as a result of being attacked by his parents’ Staffordshire bull terrier at their home address”.
He said Reuben sustained a traumatic brain injury, with complications of renal failure and gastrointestinal failure.
“All these injuries are consistent with a dog attack,” he said.
Police said in a statement in December 2018 that two Staffordshire bull terriers had been destroyed.