An amputee has been left needing surgery after being beaten by knife-wielding thugs as he saved his nine-month-old dog from abduction.
Andy Garside was walking his family's French bulldog Lilo through Hattersley, in Tameside, on Tuesday evening (June 8) when he noticed two young men walking behind him.
The pair moved out of Andy's sight, but as the 39-year-old father-of-three continued his walk in the Silverton Close area, he saw them waiting for him and his dog.
Andy's wife Stacey told the Manchester Evening News : "He didn't think anything of it at first - people were out and about. "But as he went around he could see they were waiting for him.
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