POLICE are trying to trace a man and a woman after three dogs they were walking attacked and killed a deer in front of onlookers in a car park last week.

The attack happened at Gullane Bents beach in East Lothian at around 4.50pm on Friday.

Lothian and Borders Police said a man and woman were walking two deerhounds and a greyhound along the beach.

When they entered the car park the dogs attacked a passing deer, inflicting fatal abdominal wounds before they were brought under control.

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