A woman who had to undergo plastic surgery after she was mauled by three dogs has said the attack being filmed was the “hardest thing” to deal with.
Lakaydia Reynolds, 24, feared that she was about to die when one dog jumped up to bite her face as another scratched her legs, before a third joined in.
The attack in Abbots Park, Lambeth, in south-west London, on June 6 was filmed by an onlooker and shared on social media, where it has been watched tens of thousands of times.
Speaking for the first time about the attack to the BBC’s Reliable Sauce podcast, Ms Reynolds said that the encounter, on what she described as the “worst day of my entire life”, had left her with permanent pain in her right arm.
She said that she was on her way to a driving lesson when two dogs that were not on leads approached her and launched the attack, after she asked their owner to move them away.
“It was just me against these three dogs. The owner himself actually started asking for help, which made me even more scared – because I thought, if he can’t control his dogs, then who can?”
“I had to loosen my hoodie and take my hoodie off, and tear my arm out of the dog’s mouth. If I didn’t get away within the split second that I did, I knew those dogs were going to kill me,” she said.
Ms Reynolds spent a week in hospital after suffering scratches, nerve damage and a lip injury that required plastic surgery.
She told the BBC that her right arm was no longer mobile, meaning that she was unable to play rugby or hold up her violin, and she now faces an 18-month wait to discover whether her nerve damage will heal.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/04/dog-attack-abbots-park-lambeth-social-media-video/
