A baby boy killed in a dog attack in Monmouthshire has been named as Jonte William Bluck at the opening of an inquest into his death.
Jonte, aged just nine months, was bitten by a six-year-old XL bully dog at his father’s home in Crossway, Rogiet, on 2 November. He died before reaching hospital. A provisional cause of death was recorded as compressive head injury consistent with a dog bite.
The inquest, opened at Gwent Coroner’s Court, has been adjourned until August 2026 to allow police investigations to continue.
The dog, which had been legally registered under Defra’s exemption scheme, has since been put down. A man in his 30s and a woman in her 20s were arrested on suspicion of child neglect and of owning a dangerously out of control dog. Both have been released on police bail.