A dog owner has been ordered to pay £3,235 after her pet bit a neighbour's hand when she was giving her a Christmas card. A court heard Jane Diskin, 58, was prosecuted after her German Shepherd/Husky cross Toby attacked her neighbour.
Toby bit through the skin on the woman's right hand so the tendons were visible and then bit her finger. The victim was taken to hospital where she needed a skin graft. She now feels she has to move house to be away from Toby, reports StokeonTrentLive.
Diskin has been fined £500 and ordered to pay her neighbour £2,500 compensation. Prosecutor Sara Beddow said the victim was outside her house on December 22 when the defendant came out of her home and said she had her Christmas card.
