An air ambulance pilot has been praised for his bravery after he borrowed a farmer’s shotgun and killed an XL Bully that was attacking people.

Lisa Grant, 56, admitted being the owner of a dog dangerously out of control causing injury over the terrifying incident at her isolated home in Gwynedd, North Wales, in November 2023.

Her dog Ricoh, which had never been aggressive before, snapped when her landlord Gwilym Wyn Roberts arrived and sounded his car horn, and it attacked Mrs Grant, her husband and Mr Roberts.

Caernarfon Crown Court heard Mrs Roberts screamed as the animal went for her husband, and she suffered an ‘awful’ wound to her hand while trying to drag the dog off.

She is currently awaiting a fourth reconstructive operation on her arm and has not ‘mentally’ been able to go bac

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