An arrest warrant has been issued for a mum after she failed to show up at court for sentencing over a string of attacks carried out by her illegal dog during a four-week reign of terror in Ayshire.

Nicola Wallace, 21, was due to be sentenced at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court after her pit bull terrier, named Floyd, attacked three dogs and bit another dog owner.

3 The dog attacked other pooches and an owner

But a warrant was issued for her arrest after she failed to appear for her sentencing hearing, and she will now be arrested and held in custody when tracked down by police.

Floyd savaged a Shih tzu called Cooper as it was being walked by teenage owner Niamh Lang in Ardrossan, Ayrshire, leaving it needing emergency medical treatment.

Floyd ran towards Lang, 16, and grabbed hold of her pet before repeatedly biting it on the head and body.

It clamped it's jaws on to Cooper and savaged the pet, thrashing it around for around a minute, until a stranger stepped in to break up the attack.