Mrs Richards, who was visiting the El Arca Safari Park near Alicante with her sister, is understood to have been invited to put her hand in the lioness's mouth at a tourist show. But the show went wrong when the lioness - named Marta - turned on the tourist and ravaged her arm..The animal mauled the woman's hand and eventually ripped her arm off from the elbow. The limb was not recovered because other lions pounced on it, the Spanish news agency Efe reported.
Anne Richards, 54, from Neath, was attacked by Marta, an adult lion, after she stuck her fingers through the wire fence surrounding the lions' enclosure at the Noah's Ark animal centre in Benimantell, eastern Spain.Spanish newspapers said yesterday that Mrs Richards had tried to stroke the lioness, named Marta, through the fence.
