Get the inside track on the big stories from Manchester courts with our weekly newsletter A grandmother has been told her dog must be destroyed after it bit a woman in the face.
Ann Mainwaring's dog Mylo, a German Shepherd-Akita crossbreed, lashed out at her son's girlfriend during a family argument on May 27 last year.
A judge upheld a destruction order at Minshull Street Crown Court on Thursday (March 25). Mainwaring's son, Christopher Mainwaring, and his girlfriend, Sophie Moore, had travelled from Scarborough to stay for the weekend in Rochdale when the attack happened on May 27 last year.
Mainwaring, 53, had been at work when the couple arrived at the house in Milnrow but her partner Michael was at home with the dog.
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