A pensioner who was savaged by a 'pit bull-type' dog has told how she feared she was about to die. Jacqueline McGrew, 75, had her scalp ripped down to the skull and suffered a broken jaw and a dislocated nose after being attacked as she popped round to see a neighbour for a cup of tea, the Mirror reports.
She said: "I thought I was finished. I thought I’d had it. It was a bloodbath. I was covered in blood. I was a real mess. "I could feel the dog biting my head, biting down to my skull.
Then it got my nose. I was screaming with the pain. I must have tried to get the dog off me because it also bit my arm." READ MORE: BREAKING: Man dies after horror crash at M60 and M62 Simister Island junction Jacqueline, who was awarded the British Empire Medal in 2012 for her community work, had popped next door to pay for some cat litter her neighbour David Gorton had bought for her when she was mauled by his son Sonny's dog, which police suspect is a 'pit bull-type breed'.
She said: "I didn’t know the dog was out. "I wouldn’t have gone into the garden if I had. I was just closing the gate when it pounced on me.
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