Chester Magistrates Court. A CHESTER man has admitted owning a dog which bit a woman in the face, forcing her to require hospital treatment. Matthew Highley, 40, of Edna Street, appeared at Chester Magistrates Court on Friday, May 7 and pleaded guilty at the first opportunity to the charge of being the owner of a dog that was dangerously out of control causing injury. Prosecuting, Michael O'Kane said it was on New Year's Eve, 2020, when a friend of a relative of Highley, Leilani Ting, visited Highley's home. At the property was an 11-year-old small- to medium-sized cross-breed dog calle...