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Love Island star Jack Fincham avoids prison after winning appeal against sentence

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Updated 12:20 21 Mar 2025 GMTPublished 12:02 21 Mar 2025 GMT

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Love Island star Jack Fincham avoids prison after winning appeal against sentence

He was handed a six-week jail term earlier this year

Jess Battison

Jess Battison

Jack Fincham has avoided prison after winning an appeal against his sentence.

The Love Island star was handed a six-week jail term earlier this year for dangerous dog offences.

He won his appeal today (21 March), walking free from court with with an extension to his suspended sentence order instead.

Fincham admitted at an earlier hearing to two counts of being in charge of a dangerously out-of-control dog.

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Prosecutors said the reality star's black cane corso called Elvis bit a runner in September 2022, causing an injury to his arm.

Then in June 2024, the dog was said to be out of control and grabbed a woman's leg, leaving no injury.

The Love Island 2018 winner lodged an appeal against his sentence within hours of having been sentenced in January. He was then released on conditional bail pending his appeal.

Jack Fincham and his dog, the Cane Corso called Elvis (Instagram/@Jack_charlesf)
Jack Fincham and his dog, the Cane Corso called Elvis (Instagram/@Jack_charlesf)

And today, Judge Samantha Leigh found that the activation by magistrates of a suspended sentence order for an unrelated driving matter 'wasn’t just in the circumstances'.

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An order of 12 weeks custody suspended for 18 months, had been imposed on him last March for an unrelated driving matter in 2023. This included an offence of drug-driving and fraudulent use of a registration mark.

The suspended sentence was activated in part by magistrates in January following Fincham’s guilty pleas to the dangerous dog offences.

Judge Leigh said the activation of this order 'wasn’t just in the circumstances', instead ordering a three-month extension in the operational period of the suspended sentence order.

She did not alter the rest of the sentence.

As part of his original sentence passed at the magistrates’ court, Fincham was also ordered to pay £3,680, including a £2,000 contribution to kennelling costs, a fine of £961 and £200 compensation to the runner, Robert Sudell.

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The star was warned by the judge that he needed to be 'very careful now'.

Featured Image Credit: PA

Topics: Love Island, Celebrity, Crime

Jess Battison
Jess Battison

Jess is a Senior Journalist with a love of all things pop culture. Her main interests include asking everyone in the office what they're having for tea, waiting for a new series of The Traitors and losing her voice at a Beyoncé concert. She graduated with a first in Journalism from City, University of London in 2021.

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