A police officer has spoken about the horrific impact a dog attack has had on her after she went to help its owner.

PC Michelle Murphy was savagely attacked by a dog belonging to a man who was drunk in the street.

She read out  harrowing statement in court  about how the attack affected her life.

Bodaene Rostron appeared at Bolton Crown Court to be sentenced for having a dog which was dangerously out of control and injured PC Murphy in September last year.

The officer stood up in the court and was reduced to tears giving her account of the experience.

Dog ordered to be destroyed after attack on police officer

She said: “I have been a police officer since 2009.

“I have pressed my emergency button on two occasions, once when I was being strangled, and once when I was grabbed by one of your dogs.

“I stopped my police vehicle because I thought you were dead in the road.

“It is my honest feeling I wish I had not helped you, I wish I had driven past you.

“This incident happened because you were so intoxicated you could not control yourself or your dogs.

“You did not show an ounce of concern towards me.

“When I stopped to help you I was on my way to a member of the public who needed a police presence.

“I would suggest they were more deserving of police help.

“Your dog repeatedly bit me.

“My colleague, a grown man, cried at the scene because he felt he had let me down, but he probably stopped my leg being ripped off.

“I felt humiliated having my trousers ripped off in front of my colleagues.

“I hope you will never be allowed to own a dog again in your lifetime.

“If your dog had grabbed me by the throat I would have been killed.

“‘You made my children question me, they say ‘mum why did the man not help you?’

She also said she had been left with scars on her legs and thigh and had lost feeling in this area.

PC Murphy also read from a later statement which said been forced to attend five days with a physiotherapist and been referred to a counsellor with PTSD.

After hearing this Rostron told her he was sorry from the bottom of his heart.

The dog has been ordered to be destroyed.

He was given a year long sentence suspended for two years, ordered to attend to do 20 rehabilitation activity requirement days and to pay compensation of £7,350.