Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Ian Bradley was walking with a friend in the early hours when he was caught short.
The medication he was on due to a heart condition included water tablets and he needed to urinate. He did so in the seclusion of a cemetery near Sunnybrow Park in Gorton, Manchester.
The decision would have consequences for the rest of his life. Moments later a dog's teeth were 'ripping' into his leg, he would later recall.
He had thought it was pit bull type loose in the area. But he then realised it was a German Shepherd and it had a handler, with a torch - a police officer.
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