Eight dogs savage girl, 11, who cried 'Mummy am I going to die?' in farm visit horror
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A pack of eight dogs savaged an 11-year-old girl and a woman in two brutal attacks as they visited the farm. The eight red Labradors sank their teeth into the horrified visitors at Coombeland Farm, near Tiverton, Devon, Exeter Crown Court heard. They were owned by businessman John Hardy, who was described as a "successful man of considerable reputation.".
The mum of the wounded girl said Hardy had been "blasé" about the attack and the injured woman reported the businessman offered £80 to replace her shredded trousers. Following the attack, three of Hardy's dogs have been destroyed and the 75-year-old has since been convicted of two offences of being the owner of the dogs that were dangerously out of control.
He has since been given a suspended sentence and was ordered to pay the victims £5,000 each in compensation. The first attack against the woman happened on January last year as she delivered hay. She had been undoing the straps of a trailer in the main yard when the dogs attacked, biting her legs, bottom and arms. Some of the dogs had been hanging off her during the attack.
Prosecutor Lewis Aldous said: ""They were ripping at her rather than biting and letting go." The woman's partner managed to pull her away to safety and added he believed she was going to be killed in the attack. A farmhand then managed to take her to a barn for safety, reports Mirror affiliate DevonLive. She recalled how there was "blood everywhere" and having her trousers down at her ankles.
