Walker with dog off lead on private land hurt farm worker

A man slashed a farm worker with a machete after he was challenged for walking his dog without a lead over private land.

Macxim Fallon, 21, was walking with his pit-bull terrier across the farm off Crankwood Road, Leigh at around noon on March 13 last year.

The confrontation began when a woman and then her husband asked why he was taking his dog over their farm land without a lead, Bolton Crown Court heard.

Edwin Potts, prosecuting, said: “He then responded, I’ll be back and there’ll be three of us.”