Love Island star Jack Fincham wins attraction in harmful canine case

A former Love Island star who was handed a six-week jail time period for harmful canine offences has received an attraction towards his sentence.

In September 2022, Jack Fincham’s canine, a black cane corso known as Elvis, bit a runner in Swanley in Kent after which in June 2024 the canine attacked a girl in Grays, Essex.

He admitted two counts of being in control of a dangerously out-of-control canine and was sentenced at Southend Magistrates’ Courtroom on 29 January this 12 months.

The 32-year-old, from Grays, has now received the attraction at Basildon Crown Courtroom towards his jail sentence and walked free from court docket, however with a three-month extension added to a suspended jail sentence he had been given for an unrelated driving offence.

On the sentencing at Southend Magistrates’ Courtroom in January, Fincham lodged an attraction inside hours, and was launched on conditional bail pending that attraction.

On the newest listening to in Basildon, a choose prolonged an present 12-week jail sentence, suspended for 18 months, which had been imposed for an unrelated driving matter in 2023.

That sentence included an offence of drug-driving and the fraudulent use of a registration mark.

Choose Samantha Leigh discovered the activation, by magistrates earlier in 2025, of a suspended sentence order for an unrelated driving matter “wasn’t simply within the circumstances”. She as an alternative imposed a three-month extension to the suspended sentence’s time interval, elevating it to 21 months.

At Southend Magistrates’ Courtroom, Fincham had additionally been ordered to pay £3,680, together with £2,000 in contributions to kennelling prices, a advantageous of £961 and compensation of £200 to Robert Sudell, who was the runner bitten in Kent.

Richard Cooper, for Fincham, mentioned the incident in Grays occurred whereas he had been bringing bins right into a property which he had simply moved to and the canine had slipped out.

The 32-year-old attended a voluntary police interview the identical month and was given a warning with situations together with to maintain the canine muzzled and on a lead always in public locations.

Hannah Steventon, prosecuting, mentioned in August 2024 police had attended a resort and located the canine had been within the public pool space and was not on a lead or muzzled.

Mr Cooper mentioned Fincham “wished to take his canine someplace it could have slightly extra freedom so discovered on-line this resort particularly marketed itself as dog-friendly” and believed he might let the canine off the lead.

His solicitor mentioned Fincham had “returned to a nine-to-five job” and in addition began boxing once more.

Through the re-sentencing, the choose warned the defendant he wanted to be “very cautious now”.