A dog will never walk again following a 25ft fall in Crystal Palace Park.

Louise Holden, 58, was taking Jazz, her 10-month-old Staffordshire bull terrier, for a walk in the park when she jumped onto what appeared to be a low wall and fell off the other side.

It was not until she heard the dog screaming she realised the other side of the wall was a 25ft drop.

She said: “It looks just like a normal wall. She jumped up and just dropped.

“I’m trying to black it out, I can’t get her scream out of my head. It was horrific. .”

Now Jazz faces an uncertain future, as her injuries are so severe she may have to be put down.

Ms Holden, from Lee Green near Lewisham, said: “I don’t know what to do, I would miss her tremendously. Before this accident happened she got me out of the house, she was my one companion.”

Ms Holden’s daughter Natalie, 41, who was with her when the accident happened spoke to the park keeper who told her nothing could be done because the wall was part of a listed building.

The Crystal Palace was originally built in Hyde Park for the 1851 Grand Exhibition but was moved to its current site in 1854. The palace was destroyed by fire in 1936 but some ruins still remain.

A spokesman for Bromley Council, which looks after the park, said: “The owner of the dog has spoken to us and we are investigating precisely how this sad incident occurred.

"But for unknown reasons, the dog appears to have jumped over the approximate four-feet high balustrade.

“Further along, where the balustrade has decayed, it has been fenced off as a safety precaution as would be expected.”