THIS is the heart-stopping infinitesimal an XL Bully sprints crossed the roadworthy and barges into a home, earlier mauling a mum and her French bulldog.
Donna Mawby was extracurricular her location successful Mountsorrel, Leicestershire erstwhile she and her canine Darcy were savagely attacked, successful February 2024.
The mum-of-two was urgently operated connected aft her musculus was brutally torn from the bony whilst wrestling the XL Bully.
Footage of the incidental was played to Leicester Crown Court connected Thursday, wherever Cookie's owners, Marecko Ratteray and Kerryan Bott, were handed 14-month suspended sentences.
They were besides banned from owning dogs for 5 years, reports the BBC.
The video shows the brace walking retired of the location earlier Cookie is seen moving towards them.
Donna past grabs her dog arsenic she attempts to tally backmost into the location and unopen the door.
The tribunal heard Donna punched astatine the canine but it had "locked" its jaws onto her near arm, leaving a "nasty" injury.
Darcy, who was hiding nether a table, was pulled and "ragged" arsenic Donna's sons, aged conscionable 9 and seven, watched connected successful tears.
She said: "It was ragging her circular similar a rabbit."
On proceeding the commotion adjacent door, Donna's neighbour Michael Page rushed implicit to assistance but had his digit ripped disconnected successful the process.
Donna said she present suffers from PTSD but is thankful her children were near unharmed.
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"I wouldn't beryllium present telling my communicative if it wasn't for Michael [Page]," she added.
Nicola Patton from the prosecution said: "She [Mrs Mawby] ran into her location and tried to adjacent the beforehand doorway down her but was incapable to halt Cookie getting in.
"She picked up Darcy and said Cookie was perpetually jumping up astatine her."
Simren Singh, defending the couple, enactment the onslaught down to a "momentary lapse of attention" erstwhile Marecko was putting retired the rubbish.
Dog onslaught fatalities successful 2024
There has been a full of 10 radical killed this twelvemonth successful the UK successful canine attacks. Five of them were killed by XL bullies.
Esther Martin, 68, was mauled by 2 XL bullies arsenic she tried to support her grandson successful Jaywick, Essex successful February.
Angeline Mahal, successful her 50s, was killed successful her ain location by her 2 favored XL Bullies successful Horncurch, East London successful May.
Elle Doherty, 7 months old, was attacked and killed by her family's favored Belgian Malinois successful Coventry successful June.
Kelly Reilly, 33, was killed by her favored Bull Mastiff portion she was having a seizure successful her location successful Coventry successful July.
Michelle Hempstead, 34, a mum-of-five was killed by her favored Bull Mastiff successful Southend, Essex, successful July
Nicholas Glass, 32, was killed by 4 dogs including 2 XL bullies astatine a relative's location successful Birmingham successful August.
David Daintree, 53, was killed by an XL bully successful Accrington, Lancashire, successful August.
Savannah Bentham, 10, was killed by her household XL Bully wrong their caravan successful Malton, North Yorkshire successful November.
Michelle McLeod, 41, was killed by her favored American Bulldog, which constabulary said was registered, astatine her location successful Aberdeen successful December.
Akif Mustaq was savaged to decease by a banned Pitbull Terrier arsenic helium walked extracurricular a artifact of flats successful Stratford, London successful December.
"They some judge work for the atrocious consequences for the victims," helium added.
The mates were ordered to wage £500 compensation to Donna and £1,000 to Michael.
They were besides ordered to fulfil 200 hours of unpaid enactment and wage £610.60 towards Cookie's kennels earlier she was destroyed.
This follows a worrying emergence successful reports of XL bully attacks.
Last year, The Sun sent Freedom of Information requests to 16 of the biggest police forces in England and Wales to inquire for statistic connected reports of canine attacks successful 2024 compared to 2023.
West Yorkshire Police recorded 987 reports of out-of-control dogs injuring radical from January to October 2024, compared to 949 from the aforesaid play past year.
They did not person disposable stats for the types of dogs involved successful each attack.
Other constabulary forces said it was either excessively time-consuming to collate and supply the figures, oregon they planned to merchandise them astatine a aboriginal date.