Tragic nan was treated for dog bites year before being mauled to death

A "lovely and funny" nan was treated in hospital for dog bites a year before she was killed after being mauled by multiple dogs in a horrific attack.

Ann Dunn, 65, died at a property in St Brigids Crescent, Vauxhall, on Monday evening after being mauled by "multiple" dogs described by Merseyside Police as American Bulldog breed. Her family realised something was wrong when she did not turn up to collect her grandson from school, reports the Liverpool Echo.

After the sickening attack, five American Bulldogs were later taken from the property by police and "humanely destroyed".

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The Echo revealed that Ms Dunn required hospital treatment in August last year after suffering a number of bites from a large dog, although her injuries on that occasion were not life-threatening. It is unclear whether the dog that attacked her on that occasion was involved in her death.

Tributes have flooded in for Ms Dunn, who worked as a cleaner at Liverpool John Moores University. In a touching statement, a spokesperson for the university said: "The university community is absolutely shocked and devastated by this tragic loss and to lose Ann in this way is just heart-breaking.

"Ann was hard-working and dedicated and had so many friends across the organisation. It’s just awful and she will be terribly missed. Our thoughts at this time are with her family and loved-ones."

One neighbour, who asked not to be named, told the Mirror that Ann was 'lovely, funny and a happy girl' who had 'not long ago been on holiday with her daughter'.

She said: "She was meant to be picking up her grandson from school and it was only when the school got in touch with his mum to say (he) was still there and no one had come for him that they realised