Lawyer whose dogs killed neighbour gets four years

AN American lawyer whose dogs mauled a neighbour to death was yesterday jailed for four years.

Marjorie Knoller, 47, had been found guilty by a jury of involuntary manslaughter and having a mischievous dog that killed someone.

The victim, college lacrosse coach Diane Whipple, 33, was attacked and killed by two huge Presa Canario dogs belonging to Knoller and her husband Robert Noel in her apartment hallway in San Francisco last year.