Thank you to you all for your support and advice, I really appreciate it.
We have received a letter back from the previous owners stating that it was nothing to do with them, basically.
They did of course quote The Animal Act and suggest that we were the owners at the time of the attack and therefore responsible, which to some extent, I do agree with. However, we have written back and reiterated again our belief that we weren't furnished with all information about Lola and the sheer fact that within a couple of minutes of my other half texting her to tell her what had happened with