THE fate of a Rottweiler dog which savaged a man in front of his daughter has still to be decided.

Police have submitted a file to the Crown Prosecution Service for consideration after father-of-two Clive Hughes was bitten last month.

Mr Hughes suffered gashes to his leg when two dogs bounded out of an entrance and one of them, a bitch called Elly, bit him.

The dog's owners said she was protective of children.

Parish council members in St Peter's have expressed fears for children on the estate who passed near to the dogs' home in Ransome Avenue, off Bath Road, on the way to Cherry Orchard Primary School.

"Most of our kids use that footpath as access," said parish chairman Peter Hatcher, who said there had been a number of complaints about the animals being loose.

After the incident, the dogs' owners Philip and Samantha Collins said they would only have attacked if they had been provoked.

"If we thought they were dangerous we wouldn't keep them," said Mrs Collins at the time.

Jeremy Harwood, headteacher of Cherry Orchard Primary School, said he had discussed the situation with the couple.

"We've actually previously had occasion to call the dog warden to discuss with the family the situation of the dog, and the warden also made them aware of our concerns about the dog being brought to school among children," he said

Vicki Davies from Worcester police said an investigation had been completed.

"Nothing can be done until the CPS make a decision," she said.

The Dangerous Dogs Act allows the local authority or police to seize a dog if it is dangerously out of control in a public place, but it has to be running around loose.

If a dog has escaped but is retrieved it is not deemed to be out of control in a public place.

Destruction orders for dogs are very rare.