Dog owner ignored neighbour's pleas for help as she was brutally attacked by animals
A woman has been left "deformed" and "scarred for life" after she was brutally attacked by her neighbour's dogs.
The animals - who were off their leads - immediately charged at Ms Holden's dog and she was forced to hold him up in the air to try and protect it, prosecutor Ken Grant told the court. They then starting attacking Ms Holden, with one dog, named Walter, biting into her arm and 'locking on'. A statement read out to the court on Ms Holden's behalf described how she has been left "paranoid" and "self conscious" over the injury to her arm. She added that "seeing the dogs triggers something deep inside of her" while she "relives the scenario over and over again", adding: "I am scarred for life.
Highton-Lawal admitted being in charge of a dangerously out of control dog causing injury and received a 16-month prison sentence suspended for two years. "She was in hospital being treated for five days, and thereafter having to undergo skin grafts. She is terribly conscious of it - seeing it every day, feeling it every day and having to walk past the scene every day.
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