Map reveals worst place in the UK for dog bite attacks – including area with more than four maulings a week

A MAP has revealed the worst places in the UK for dog bite attacks – including the spot where there are four maulings a week.

This year alone two people have been savaged to death by hounds, with dozens more attacked – including six people who were raced to hospital yesterday.

The first person killed this year was Surrey woman Natasha Johnston, 28, who died from “multiple penetrating dog bites to the neck”.

Less than a month later little Alice Stones, four, was mauled to death by her family dog in Milton Keynes.

Last year there was a record number of deaths and over a seven-month period alone more than 2,000 people required surgery after being savaged by dogs.

The worst area in the UK, between April and November last year, was Kent and Medway, where a whopping 250 attacks were recorded.

That averaged more than four maulings a week where surgery was required.

Black Country was the next worst area, clocking in 180 savagings, closely followed by Coventry and Warwickshire with 170, and Devon with 165.

Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West; Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire; Birmingham and Solihull; Cheshire and Mersusode; and Hampshire and Isle of Wight also closely followed with 160 attacks reported in the seven-month period.

Across the board the number of attacks on children appeared to be rising – with nearly 700 whisked into hospital for surgery.

Vanessa Jane Davies, a Harley Street skin camouflage and scar therapy consultant, said there were noticeably more people coming through the door.

She told The Sun: “I have seen a significant rise in referrals for children and adults who have been bitten or struck by a dog.

“I treat men and women on a monthly basis for dog attacks, however, it’s often the young children who are at the highest risk of dog attack injuries and they are particularly vulnerable to bites to the face and neck.”

It comes after six people were rushed to hospital yesterday when two “killer” dogs “circled” a Birmingham school.

Armed cops raced to Willow Gardens, Winson Green around 2.30pm yesterday after reports two beasts started attacking passersby.

In a terrifying message to parents, the school warned of “killer” dogs “circling” the area as they put the school into lockdown.

While the injured wounds were being tended to in hospital, West Midlands Police seized the two dogs and arrested a 28-year-old.

DOG ATTACK ‘EPIDEMIC’

It came as a man also yesterday admitted to being in charge of two American bulldogs that mauled a great-gran to death.

The Sun recently looked into Britain’s deadly dog attack epidemic, where beasts are sold on Snapchat amid calls for the breed to be banned.

American Bully XLs are at the centre of an attack epidemic that has killed ten Brits in the last 12 months.

The youngest victim was Bella Rae-Birch, just 17-months when a family dog – bought a week before the attack – savaged her to death.

An inquest into the tot’s killing at home in St Helens, Merseyside, heard how “even an adult wouldn’t have stood a chance against” the hound.

Other victims of the breed, including Ian Symes, 34, had their throats bitten and vital organs torn into during attacks.

Dog-walker Ian died at a rec in Fareham, Hampshire, after the savage attack on August 10 last year by a 52kg dog bought from travellers on Snapchat.

‘TURNED MAD AND SNAPPED’

But the attacks keep coming.

Mum-of-two Joanne Robinson, 43, was savaged to death by her Bully XL Rocco after he “turned mad and snapped”, pinning her throat to the floor with his jaws last July.

While Shirley Patrick, 83, died 17 days after sustaining “traumatic lacerations” and “significant injuries” to her head, body, face and arms in a mauling by a Bully XL.

The tragedy happened just half a mile from a house where 10-year-old schoolboy Jack Lis was killed by another dog in November 2021.

The 10-year-old was killed by an eight-stone dog nicknamed “Beast”.

Last month it was revealed dangerous dog attacks have risen by 34 per cent in England and Wales over the past five years.

Between 2001 and 2021, there was an average of 3.3 dog-related deaths each year.

Last year, that shot up to ten.