Boy, 4, suffers horrific facial injuries after being bitten by savage pitbull-type dog

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Riley Fox was in his neighbour's garden in Widnes playing with five other children when the animal, believed to be a Rhodesian Ridgeback-pitbull cross, clamped its jaws around his face. Pictures taken after the attack show the little boy with gaping holes in his cheek and deep cuts around his eye and mouth. His father Tony, 28, said: 'If it had bitten him a couple of inches lower it would have ripped his throat out.'