Teenager's dog bite terror

NOW SHE'S WORRIED SOMEONE ELSE MAY GET HURT

- By POPPY KENNEDY

A TEENAGER was left covered in blood and screaming in agony after she was bit by a dog while on a walk in Middlesbrough.

Eden Moss has been left with painful puncture wounds after the attack in Park End on Tuesday, May 6. The 19-year-old was walking her own dog, a Labrador-cross called Charlie, with her partner along the path near the blue bridge to the back of James Cook University Hospital.

They were approached by a couple walking in the other direction who had a dog off the lead, which appeared to be a grey Visla or similar breed, Eden's family said.

The dog ran up to Eden and partner Rhys Readman and began snarling at their pup, who was on a lead. As Eden moved Charlie out of the way, instinctively putting herself between them, the dog lunged and bit down onto the terrified 19-year-old's forearm and began shaking her.

She screamed for help and a couple, who had a child in a pram with them, grabbed the dog away and, the family say, then headed in the other direction.