Woman compensated after dog attack
Injury lawyers have won a woman £5,000 in a compensation claim, after she sustained personal injury in a dog attack.
The woman needed eight stitches after she was attacked by the dog in her local pub.
The 41 year old woman from Morpeth, was bitten twice in the face and once on the lip and eyebrow.
The dog was let into the pub after time was called by its owner, the pub landlord.
The victim bent down to stroke the dog, which she had met before, when it suddenly turned on her.
Her doctors have informed her that the scar to her lip could take up to two years to fade.
She said she decided to pursue a compensation claim because she feared the dog would go on to bite another person.
Her injury lawyers argued that the pub owner should have kept the animal under control and if there was a history of aggression, the dog should have been muzzled.
Her injury lawyers added: “It is up to the dog’s owner to make sure it is under control. This dog had a history of showing aggression and should have been both exercised more often and muzzled to avoid it biting anyone else.”
Updated on 26/04/2010