The attack from the family’s Belgian Malinois dog ‘transpired within a second or less,’ Coventry Coroner’s Court heard

A BABY girl was mauled to death by her pet dog as her parents desperately tried to pull the animal off her, an inquest heard. Elle Doherty suffered a “catastrophic” head injury after

Seven-month-old Elle Doherty died after being attacked by the family’s Belgian Malinois dog at her Coventry home in June.

Area coroner Delroy Henry concluded the attack at the family home in Coundon on 16 June lasted "less than a second" as the dog, called Zeus, was immediately pulled away. Elle suffered skull fractures and a cardiac arrest, and was pronounced dead in hospital an hour after the attack.