A woman died after she was bitten on the arm by one of her two dogs as they fought over McDonalds chicken nuggets, an inquest heard.

Michelle Hempstead suffered traumatic blood loss, leading to multiple organ failure following the incident at her home in Southend, Essex.

She owned two dogs, a mastiff rottweiler cross called Trigg and aPomeranian called Pom, the hearing in Chelmsford was told.

The 34-year-old mum-of-five was throwing chicken nuggets to them both on July 29 last year, when Trigg caught her upper left arm, severing an artery, while snapping at the smaller dog, Pom.

Essex senior coroner Lincoln Brookes said Pom ‘had a go at Trigg’ and Trigg ‘did go to bite him or snap at him, and this is a big dog with big jaws’

He said he accepted Pom and Trigg were ‘quite well behaved’

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