XL bully ‘started eating pensioner alive’ before being shot by armed police

John McColl, 84, was mauled by the dog, called Toretto, when he wandered onto the driveway of Sean Garner’s home (Pictures: SWNS/Liverpool Echo)

An XL bully’s fatal attack on a pensioner was only halted when armed police shot it 10 times, a court has heard.

John McColl, 84, was mauled by the dog, called Toretto, when he wandered onto the driveway of Sean Garner’s home in Warrington, Cheshire, just after 6pm on February 24 last year.

Christopher Burton, who lives opposite the house on Bardsley Avenue...