Love Island winner Jack Fincham walks free from court after winning appeal against jail sentence for dog attack
LOVE Island winner Jack Fincham has walked free from court after winning his jail sentence for a dog attack on a runner.
The reality star, 32, was locked up for six weeks in January after the hulking Cane Corso attacked Robert Sudell.
Fincham was freed on bail two hours later to appeal the sentence and was later pictured smiling with on-off girlfriend Chloe Brockett.
He returned to court today to learn his fate and faced being jailed today if the appeal bid failed.
But Fincham successfully overturned the sentence and will no longer have to serve time in prison – although a further three months was added to his existing suspended sentence.
Judge Samantha Leigh found the original sentence “wasn’t just in the circumstances”.
Elvis first attacked runner Robert in Swanley, Kent, in September 2022.
He then mauled an unnamed woman in Grays, Essex, in June 2024 but no harm was done.
Presiding magistrate Anne Wade, said that Fincham was subject to a suspended sentence order at the time.
This was after Fincham was caught speeding down the hard shoulder in a BMW while on cocaine.
Ms Wade said this order would be activated in part, adding that “we find no reason not to do so” as she jailed the star.
Fincham was also ordered to pay £3,680 – including £200 compensation fee to Robert and a £50 compensation fee to the other victim.
A payment plan of £400-a-month will be set up, Southend Magistrates’ Court heard previously.
JPs heard that Fincham failed to comply with three rules over the dog’s ownership following the first attack.
These included to always keep the dog on the lead, for the dog to wear a muzzle when outside and to not leave the animal alone with anyone under the age of 16.
The guidelines were set in September 2022 when Elvis bit runner Robert and Fincham took part in a dog ownership course.
But there was another incident in June 2024 when the animal lashed out at a woman – sinking its teeth into her leg.
The court was told Fincham would get Elvis back if the three stipulations are met.
Fincham has previously come under fire over his pet dog.
Fans have slammed the star over Elvis’ cropped ears, which is illegal in the UK.
He revealed last year that he had got the pooch from Russia and that it was imported by Protection Dogs WorldWide.
The former pen salesman also owns Sandy, a bulldog he bought while he was dating and living with his ex Dani Dyer.
Fincham appeared on the 2018 series of Love Island where he and Dani – daughter of actor Danny Dyer – scooped the top prize.
The couple split just 129 days after leaving the villa following a series of rows.
Dani broke the news to their followers in December 2018, saying: “She wrote: “Jack and I have sadly decided to part ways. It’s been an incredible six months and we will always have a place in our hearts for each other, but we’ve sadly come to the realisation that it’s not meant to be long term.
“We both plan to stay friends. I hope you’ll all understand. Love Dani x.”
Fincham has found himself on the wrong side of the law numerous times since 2021 when he was arrested for drink-driving.
He recently told The Sun how he felt “ashamed” of himself after admitting he blew his £1million TV fortune on drugs, booze and gambling.
Fincham added: “I can’t say Love Island ruined my life — I did that myself. I, Jack Fincham, am an addict.
“I feel like a failure, utterly mortified by the things I have done. I had the world at my feet and I screwed it up.
“Embarrassed just doesn’t touch it. It is hideous. I cry when I think about how I’ve let people down.
“I have blown more than a million pounds thanks to drugs, booze and gambling.
“Drugs helped my relationship with Dani fail. I was absent, my priorities were wrong, I wasn’t a great boyfriend. I am determined to change my future.
“There’s times I wish I’d never been in the public eye and just stayed exactly as I was. Destruction was always in me, but fame and money made it happen quicker.”