Crufts-winning dog breeder found guilty after dog savages 'screaming' woman - days after Lisa Garner jailed for dog attack on girl

Margaret Peacock, 69, was convicted by a jury of the offence of being in charge of the dog called Mako which was dangerously out of control causing injury to 33-year-old Natasha Turner. Sian Beaven, prosecuting, told the trial at Salisbury Crown Court that Ms Turner had visited the home of the defendant in Farnborough to do some DIY and to visit her own dog, Bobo, that was staying there, when the attack happened.

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Giving evidence, Ms Turner said she had visited Peacock on February 1, 2021, to move the defendant’s bed to another room so it would be nearer to a wood burner because of the cold. Describing the incident, she said: ‘It happened really quick, when we realised it was going wrong I was scared because I didn’t think I was going to get the dog off between us.

‘It was like someone had got a knife, put it in your leg and was tearing it through with a knife, that’s the only way I can describe it. I was screaming. I was crying my eyes out. It was really, really bad.’

Ms Turner said that Peacock helped her to get the dog off but was bitten herself in the process before the defendant managed to put the dog back behind the gate where it was normally kept.

She said that Peacock asked her afterwards not to contact the police because she was worried the dog would be put down and also bought her gifts in an attempt to stop her from reporting the incident. The defendant denied that Mako carried out the attack and told the court that Ms Turner arrived injured at her front door having been attacked by another unknown dog elsewhere.

Judge Richard Parkes KC adjourned the case for sentencing on February 3, 2023. He released Peacock on bail until then and ordered an all-options pre-sentence report.

The conviction follows last week’s sentence of Lisa Garner, 45, who was jailed for 10 months after her Dobermann savaged a three year-old girl where she lived on Botley Drive in Leigh Park in August.