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Ex-rugby league star Andy Gregory 'stood and watched' as his Bordie Collie mauled dog walker

Former Great Britain rugby league star Andy Gregory has been ordered to pay £1,000 compensation after his Border Collie sheepdog savaged a dog walker in a random attack.

The 61-year old former scrum half, who was once the most expensive player in the world, was hauled into court after he was said to have stood by and watched while his herding dog Georgie mauled Simon Derbyshire.

Mr Derbyshire suffered substantial wounds to his legs and back and in a statement to police said: "At the time of the incident I was in extreme amounts of pain. I was just trying to protect my dog, who is small and placid, from his dog.

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''I now take my dog out at night because I am too scared that I will walk into the defendant and his dog during the day."

At Bolton magistrates court Gregory, of Priory Road in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Wigan, who won 26 GB caps and played for Widnes during the famous 'Cup Kings' era of the 1970s, admitted having a dangerous dog out of control.

He was sentenced to 16-weeks in jail suspended for 12 months and was told he must now walk Geordie with a lead and muzzle under the terms of a contingency destruction order.

Gregory played for Widnes and Warrington before signing for Wigan in 1986 for a then world record fee of £130,000. He subsequently won the 1987 Player of the Year award and was one of only two players to play in six Ashes series against Australia before retiring in 1994.

Last March he was declared bankrupt with debts of £412,000 following the collapse of an 80s music festival he had helped organise at Blackburn Rovers' Ewood Park stadium which was due to feature the Human League, Boy George, and UB40.

Tineka O’Mara, prosecuting, told the

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