A dog breeder has denied her pet mauled a visitor as she told a court another dog was responsible for the attack outside her home.

Margaret Peacock, 69, who has won awards at Crufts, is accused of being in charge of a dog called Mako which was dangerously out of control causing injury to Natasha Turner.

Sian Beaven, prosecuting, told Salisbury Crown Court that Ms Turner had visited the home of the defendant in Farnborough, Hampshire, on February 1, 2021, to do some DIY and to visit her own dog, Bobo, who was staying there when the attack happened.

Giving evidence, Peacock said Ms Turner was already injured when she arrived at the door after she had been attacked by an unknown dog.

The defendant said: “She was absolutely hysterical, I shuttled her into the kitchen as quickly as I could, she was frightened standing on the doorstep.

“She kept saying ‘It bit me, it bit me’. It was her leg, I pulled her trouser leg up to see what was wrong with her.

“It was a very big bite or a lot of multiple bites but they were deep, it was a dog bite.”

The defendant said she had to shut up her dogs as they were getting excited by the situation.

She said: “They were all around her because she was bleeding and it was all different for them, they were over-excited. I put my dogs in the bedroom.”

The prosecution claims the defendant was also bitten by Mako in the attack but Peacock said she received a small bite from Ms Turner’s dog.

She said: “I collected Bobo, put him outside the back door, I pushed him outside with my knee and he bit me.”

The court was played three 999 calls made after the incident during which Peacock said Ms Turner had been attacked “in the street”.

The defendant said: “It wasn’t in my house,” and added the injuries were “extremely severe”.

Peacock denies the offence and the trial continues.