The distraught mum of a little girl who was left 'scarred for life' and needing plastic surgery after a horror dog attack has claimed the police told her there was 'nothing they could do'.
Lilah, aged nine, was out with her pal from school on a playpark on Clough Street in Wardle, Rochdale, on June 7, when she was asked if wanted to hold a Border Collie that had been brought onto the park.
A few moments later her friend then picked up the dog, before it launched an attack on Lilah, biting her face and leaving the youngster injured and covered in blood. READ MORE Shop owner blasts 'Britain's dumbest criminals' after store doused in petrol and set alight in random attack After being rushed back to her friend's house across the street by a group of teenagers, emergency services were then called and Lilah was taken to Manchester Children's Hospital for immediate surgery.
Over two months on from the dog attack, Lilah's mum Natalie has claimed police told her there was 'nothing they could do' and said they failed to interview key witnesses.
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