A tiny baby girl was left with 'unsurvivable' injuries after being mauled in her cot by a nine-stone 'American Bulldog' as her mother and her partner slept in front of the television. Lee Wright's dog 'Snoop' savaged 11-month-old Ava-Jayne Corless as she slept alone upstairs after escaping from his kitchen pen and ripping into the toddler's neck. Ava-Jayne was found with horrific injuries by her distraught mother Chloe King in her boyfriend's Blackburn home in February last year. She died in hospital. Mr Wright is appearing at Blackburn Magistrates' Court charged with owning a banned breed of dog. The court heard today how two veterinary experts - on behalf of the prosecution and the defence - presented strong arguments that the dog appeared to have 42 of a possible 66 characteristics of a pit bull terrier type.