A PET Rottweiler, which twice bit a neighbour, has been put down following a court destruction order.

The next-door neighbour had gone to deliver a letter wrongly put through his door when he was bitten on the hand.

The dog had also been made subject of a control order after it attacked and injured a Jack Russell terrier.

Sarah Rollo, 40, of McClelland Crescent, Dunfermline, admitted that on March 26 at her home she was the owner of a Rottweiler dog, which was out of control and bit her neighbour on the body causing injury.

Dunfermline Sheriff Court heard the dog was called Franco, a male, black and tan Rottweiler.

At 1.30pm the neighbour had attended at the accused’s door to deliver a letter which had been put through his door by mistake.

After the door was answered by a child, the dog suddenly appeared and bit the neighbour on the right hand.

The injured man went to Queen Margaret Hospital where his wounds were cleaned, bandaged and he was given antibiotics.

The sheriff was told that the same neighbour had been bitten by the dog on a previous occasion when he also required hospital treatment.

Defence solicitor Jenny Simpson had told the court: “The dog is two-and-a-half-years-old and is now owned by her daughter."

Sheriff Charles MacNair previously said: “It’s always sad and distressing for the court to order the destruction of a dog but I do have to have regard to the protection of the public."

After being handed notification from a veterinary practice that the dog had been put down, the sheriff ordered Rollo to pay £300 compensation to her neighbour.