Britain’s dog attack crisis - injuries soar as death toll mounts
London saw the highest number of dog attacks in 2025, with the Metropolitan Police recording 2,530 cases.Greater Manchester Police recorded the second highest total with 1,678 attacks.Earlier this month a three-month-old girl died after being bitten by a dog.Maggie-May Ann Moody died on April 9 in Dormanstown, near Redcar, Cleveland.Armed police attended and shot a dog at the property, with another being put down later.In a statement issued to Cleveland Police, her family said: “Maggie changed us in so many ways.“She was everything to us. She gave us meaning and purpose every day, and we feel empty.“As parents and a family, we have been robbed of a beautiful lifetime and memories with her.“Our lives will never be the same again, she will always be in our hearts.”Two men, aged 36 and 45, and a 31-year-old woman were arrested and have been released on conditional bail.Two other people have been killed in dog attacks this month. A 19-year-old woman died after a dog attacked her at her home and she sustained serious traumatic injuries to her neck, an inquest heard.Jamie-Lea Biscoe was discovered by her father in an upstairs bedroom at the address in the village of Leaden Roding, Essex.A man was arrested after a woman in her 70s died following an attack by two dogs at a house in Wolverhampton on April 15.
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