My mum was unrecognisable after fatal mauling in UK dog attack capital – it’s always the same breed… they MUST be banned | The Sun
My mum was unrecognisable after fatal mauling in UK dog attack capital – it’s always the same breed… they MUST be banned | The Sun
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STARING at young photographs of her beloved mum, Gail Jones feels numb as she struggles to come to terms with her harrowing fate.
It’s been three months since Shirley Patrick, 83, died after being mauled in a “hellish”, violent dog attack.
The Welsh pensioner passed away from sepsis following the incident inside her home of 60 years in Penyrheol, Caerphilly – an area dubbed the UK's dog bite capital.
She was the 10th person to die from a dog-related attack in 2022, up from an average of three per year.
In England and Wales, dog attacks have risen by 34 per cent in the last five years, with police recording 22,000 in 2022, compared with 16,000 in 2018.
Gail, 63, laid mum Shirley to rest by burying her ashes along with those of her husband Dennis earlier this month, and admits she still struggles to process what happened.
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She tells The Sun: “I can’t even begin to imagine what she must have gone through, I don’t want to. I don’t want to think of all the pain she suffered.
“Her injuries were horrific, she lost the tip of her nose and all of her top lip, the middle of her face was completely gone. There was just a stub left, like a skeleton.
“She lost an eye, lost an ear, had huge chunks out of her head, and at the back of her skull around her neck that was all down to the bone.”
Shirley passed away on December 20 from pneumonia and sepsis, 17 days into the hospital battle to treat her “horrific, life-changing injuries”.
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