Victims of 'UK's most dangerous animal' feared they were going to die after horror attacks

A common animal that many of us spot on pleasant walks in the countryside with our dogs could actually be the UK's most dangerous.

Jill Gilmore and her husband, Mark, were walking their dog in Stockport when she suffered a horrifying ordeal that left her with a dozen broken ribs, a fractured pelvis, and additional breaks in her arm and neck.

Jill also sustained injuries to her lungs, head and ankle and subsequently endured three days of gruelling surgery, an ICU stay and time on a ventilator, all because she climbed over a stile on a public footpath.

Speaking previously to the Manchester Evening News, she admitted she "didn't remember" a lot of the attack from the "frenzied" animals.

And in a new interview with The Guardian, Jill said: "I remember feeling I was about to die. It was just instant. I had kind of relaxed. Then Mark came up to me and just absolutely shouted at me to get up. He helped me up, got my arms around his neck."

The couple unexpectedly faced what could be Britain's most dangerous animal – a cow. Jill was viciously attacked by a herd of 20 or 30 cows that knocked her to the ground.

Her escape from the frightening situation involved being pulled underneath a fence by her husband. He shared that Jill had even resigned herself to her fate during the attack, urging him to leave her behind to be killed, reports the Mirror.

Despite the severity of her injuries, Jill counts herself lucky. Others have not been as fortunate, with Brian Bellhouse losing his life in 2017 and Malcolm Flynn, David Clark, and Michael Holmes passing away due to similar incidents in 2020.

Kathy McKellar and Huw Evans tragically lost their lives in cow-related incidents in 2022, while others have narrowly survived but sustained