Number of UK dog attack injuries surge by 83 per cent since 2020
New figures reveal dog attacks resulting in injuries across the UK have risen by more than 80 per cent since 2020.
Data obtained by the Daily Mirror shows police recorded crimes involving out-of-control dog attacks causing injury rose from 16,040 in 2020 to 29,400 last year; This figure is an alarming 83 percent increase.
Despite the February 2024 ban on the XL bully breed, the number of attacks continued to increase.
London will see the most dog attacks in 2025, with the Metropolitan Police recording 2,530 cases and Manchester Police recording the second highest total with 1,678 cases.
Earlier this month, a three-month-old girl died after being bitten by a dog.
Maggie-May Ann Moody died on 9 April at Dormanstown, near Redcar, Cleveland.
Armed police arrived on the scene and shot one dog, while another was then put down.
In a statement to Cleveland Police, her family said: “Maggie changed us in so many ways.
“He was our everything. He gave us meaning and purpose every day, and we feel empty.
“As parents and family, we were deprived of a beautiful life and memories with him.
“Our lives will never be the same again, he will always be in our hearts.”
Two men, aged 36 and 45, and a 31-year-old woman, who were arrested, were released on conditional bail.
Two more people were killed in dog attacks this month.
The inquest heard that a 19-year-old woman died after being attacked by a dog in her home and suffered serious traumatic injuries to her neck.
Jamie-Lea Biscoe was discovered by her father in an upstairs bedroom at the address in the village of Leaden Roding, Essex.
A man has been arrested after a woman in her 70s died after being attacked by two dogs at a home in Wolverhampton on 15 April.
