Puppy gets new home with Met police officer who rescued her from squalid flat

Staffie cross Stella with Metropolitan Pc Joe Allen (Yui Mok/PA)

By Samuel Montgomery, PA

An abandoned Staffie cross puppy has been brought back from the brink of starvation by a Metropolitan Police officer, who now wishes to adopt her permanently.

Police were called to Tottenham, north London, a few days before Christmas last year after an abseiling builder spotted a distressed dog through the window of a 12th-floor flat.