A coroner has called for regulation limiting the number of dogs any one person can walk after a professional dog walker was mauled to death at a park. 

Natasha Johnston, 28, from Croydon, was walking eight dogs in Gravelly Hill, Caterham, when she was killed on January 12 last year. 

Senior coroner Richard Travers said: "Initially, she appeared to be in control of the dogs, but as time went by, the dogs became increasingly excited and out of her control.” 

He added: “Bearing in mind the sheer number and size of the dogs involved, her inability to control and to hold them was not surprising.” 

One of the larger dogs she was walking bit another dog walker and the dogs also ran at two horses. 

Ms Johnston was later discovered injured with two dogs with blood on their muzzles nearby. 

She was pronounced dead a short time later. 

A post mortem examination revealed she had sustained multiple injuries consistent with dog bites and claw marks 

Mr Travers has now submitted a prevention of future deaths report to the home secretary calling for new regulation. 

He said: " The lack of regulation, both locally and nationally, that restricts the number and weight of dogs that an individual person can walk on their own in a public place. 

“Consideration should be given to limiting the number and gross weight of dogs an individual person should be allowed to walk in a public place, both for their own safety and for the safety of others.”