Speaking to Kfm News, Agnes Wright says she had been sitting with her sister Lily, listening to music and talking about their late mother before noon on Saturday. She says she heard “an unmerciful shrilling cry,” and when she looked outside, dogs were scattered across the front and back garden.
A Suncroft woman says she was left terrified after up to 20 hunting dogs burst into her garden - leaving her sister with cerebral palsy deeply distressed.
Speaking to Kfm News, Agnes Wright says she had been sitting with her sister Lily, listening to music and talking about their late mother before noon on Saturday.
She says she heard “an unmerciful shrilling cry,” and when she looked outside, dogs were scattered across the front and back garden.
She counted around 20 in total.
Agnes had taken her two small Yorkies inside only moments earlier.
Her son - arriving home from a 24-hour shift - had to grab his own dog.
Inside, her sister Lily was terrified.
She is wheelchair-bound, prone to seizures, and Agnes says any sudden shock can put her health at serious risk.
“She hasn’t been right since,” she said, adding that Lily was too upset to eat her dinner afterwards.
Ms Wright says the family no longer feels safe in their own garden.
"When I looked out, they were everywhere - front garden, back garden. I counted around twenty."
She says hounds have been seen in the area before - but never anything on this scale.
“I never realised the cruelty until I heard it and saw it,” she said.
“That shrilling cry… I’ll never forget it.”
She says she’s now afraid to let her dogs outside, and neighbours were also shocked by the incident.
Attempts to contact the organisers of the hunt have so far been unsuccessful.
You can listen to the full interview with Agnes below.
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