Two-year-old patted XL bullies on head day before FIVE burst into garden and attacked her

A two-year-old girl patted her neighbour's XL bully dogs on the head the day before being attacked. Sandra Mckevitt was having a picnic in her back garden with two-year-old niece Ella and her two young cousins when one of her neighbour's XL bullies crashed through the fence.

Moments later, five XL bullies went straight for Ella. The toddler was airlifted to hospital, the Liverpool Echo reports.

While the attack took place on May 7, 2016, Ella was only discharged from Alder Hey Children's Hospital last year after completing her treatment. Sandra, 63, said: "We were having a little picnic in the garden, and I remember it was one of those hot days.

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"We had baked some cakes and they [the children] were playing and running around. "We could hear the dogs next door but we didn't really think anything of it, Ella was patting them on the head the day before and they were lovely dogs.

Next thing I heard this bang and saw one of the dogs heads through the side of the fence, we were laughing at first but then I saw its eyes - I will never forget them eyes." Sandra told Ella's cousins, who were stood by the back door of her house in Dingle, Liverpool, to go inside.

Seconds later five XL bullies went straight for Ella. Sandra said: "Ella started screaming, they were circling us and one at a time going for her and me.

"It was literally one at a time, it was like their instincts took over. At one point it was tug of war with a baby. They had hold of her by her cheek and I was pulling her legs to get them off her. I fell down at one point