TWO dogs which set upon a takeaway driver when he delivered curry to their home are to be destroyed.

Owner Lynda Taylor, 56, broke down in the dock at Preston Crown Court, wailing ‘please, no’ as the judge made the order for destruction.

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Taylor pleaded guilty to two counts of having a dog dangerously out of control after Tyson and Ruby mauled Mohammed Siddeeq on her doorstep, leaving him unconscious with deep bite wounds and nerve damage.

Yesterday, she was sentenced to six months in jail suspended for 12 months, plus a two-month curfew from 9pm to 6am.

The court heard Tyson, a bull mastiff cross Staffordshire bull terrier, had previously bitten a postman delivering a parcel to the property in Rothesay Road, Blackburn two years before.

Following the incident, Taylor had taken steps to ensure the dogs were secured away from visitors by fitting locks to the outside of the interior doors and using safety gates.

But on Valentine’s Day, Taylor answered the door at around 1.30am.

As Mr Siddeeq approached the property, he heard the dogs barking and running to the door.

A man shouted at them to ‘get in’ and when Taylor answered the door the dogs could not be seen.

But after Mr Siddeeq handed over the curry, Taylor went to pick up the money and opened the door to a downstairs room.

Ruby, a Staffordshire cross, ran at Mr Siddeeq, who was waiting outside the front door, jumping at his throat.

Mr Siddeeq put his arm out to defend himself and the dog locked onto his forearm and began shaking her head as she bit into his skin.

Tyson bit Mr Siddeeq’s leg and as he tried to escape the dog pulled him over and he passed out.

Recorder James Parry, sentencing, said: “The fear he must have been feeling by being pulled down by the dogs must have been extreme.”

Mr Siddeeq came round to see a man pulling one of the dogs off him but lost consciousness again until he woke in Taylor’s living room with people tending to his wounds.

He suffered deep cuts and bite marks to his bicep, tricep and legs. He needed a four-hour operation and plastic surgery.

In a statement read to the court, Mr Siddeeq said since the attack he rarely left home and he had to resign from both his day and night jobs, leaving him less able to support his family.

He is still undergoing physiotherapy and has pain in his arms and legs, the court heard.

Tyson and Ruby were put into police kennels where they were assessed by two dog behavioural experts.

Both were found to have aggressive territorial tendencies and posed a danger to people they did not know.

Recorder Parry said the risk of injury or death by the dogs could be reduced by adequately separating them from visitors but that there was room for human error.

He told Taylor: “You failed to reasonably respond to warnings and concerns expressed by others about the dogs’ behaviour when Tyson bit two years earlier. You were not arrested or prosecuted but you must have plainly been on notice that at least one of your dogs posed a risk to visitors to your house.”