Cop Attempts Suicide After Dogs Die in Hot Car

One of the most experienced police dog trainers in Britain slashed his wrists in an apparent suicide attempt after accidentally leaving two dogs to roast to death in a locked car on one of the hottest days of the year. Sergeant Ian Craven didn't remember leaving the dogs, a working Belgian Malinois and a German Shepherd puppy, until hours after he exited the dog training center to work at a different site, the Daily Mail reports.

Staff at the center smashed the vehicle's windows and doused the dogs in water after receiving a phone call from Craven, but it was too late to save them. Craven fled in a colleague's vehicle after learning that the dogs had died and was hospitalized after being found with his wrists cut. The sergeant, who was disciplined over the death of a spaniel he left in a vehicle in 2004, may face prosecution for animal cruelty. (More police dogs stories.)