MUM has spoken of the painful moment she was forced to recognize her dead son by his shoe when he was murdered Mauled to death by a XL bully dog.
Jack Lis (10 years old) was murdered by Beast, an eight-stone dog, in Caerphilly (South Wales), in November 2021.
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Sixteen more people, including a 70-year-old woman who was not named at the time of the attack on the woman this weekend, have died in dog attacks since Jack’s demise.
In 2022, there were almost 22,000 injuries caused by dogs that are out of control.
Emma Whitfield 32, a campaigner for Jack Lis Law told the Daily MirrorIt was extremely difficult to identify Jack from his shoes.
“Being told he didn’t make it was unimaginable.”
The devastated mum previously revealed how she is haunted by her memories of the savage attack.
She stated: “I am still having terrible flashbacks.” “I still see that animal with its teeth. I still hear the animal’s barking. It’s torturous to relive the experience every day.
It’s still unbelievable to me. “It hits you over and again, whether on the couch or the journey home.”
In June 2022, Brandon Hayden (then 19) was sentenced to a little over four years of imprisonment in a juvenile offenders’ facility. Amy Salter (then 29), was also jailed three years for being the owner of an out-of-control dog.
Beast’s previous owner was trying to get rid of the dog just days before the horror amid fears it would attack.
He wrote a plea on a bulldog Facebook page claiming the American pitbull-style animal was ‘great with people’ but ‘unfortunately does not like other dogs’.
The owner replied: “I tried to help him but I cannot risk my other dogs.
The time is short.
The post was accompanied by a photo of a hulking, muscular dog.
When the dog viciously attacked Jack, it had just recently been adopted by the family one of Jack’s friends.
The campaign for the ‘Jack Lis Law’ is backed by the Dog Control Coalition – which includes the RSPCA, Dogs Trust and Battersea Dogs & Cats Home – and Caerphilly’s Labour MP Wayne David.
The group is calling for an alternative approach to the dog law that includes all breeds and places emphasis on training, breeding and selling of dogs.
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