SAVAGE DOGS KILL GRAN, 68

Report of '8 XL Bullys in house' |  Daughter warned of dangers

- ADAM ASPINALL

AN 11-year-old boy saw his grandmother mauled to death by two dogs that the victim's family say were XL Bullys.

The lad ran screaming from the house as the dogs attacked 68-yearold Esther Martin.

Neighbours tried to stop them but Esther died at the scene in Jaywick, Essex. Her daughter Kelly Fretwell, 46, told how the owner of the dogs that mauled her mother to death shrugged off warnings they were dangerous, saying: "Nobody can tell me what to do with my dogs."

Kelly said there were eight “XL Bullys" in the house at the time of the attack-six puppies and the two adult dogs which killed Esther as she visited her grandson, whose own mother died two years ago.

Kelly said: "There could have been two victims, my nephew has not only lost his mum and grandmother but he had to witness all this violence. He could have been killed as well."

The dogs' owner was named locally as Esther's son-in-law Ashley Warren, a rap artist calling himself Wyless Man. In November, he posted an ad selling XL Bully puppies at £500 each.