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Article: Boy, 8, savaged by bull mastiff
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 20, 1996
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An eight-year-old boy suffered terrible facial injuries
yesterday when he was savaged by a Cruft's champion dog.
Michael Swain was attacked by the bull mastiff when he went to
his neighbour's house to fetch his football as he played in his
driveway with his brother Joseph, five. The dog's owner Tony Oxley
waved the boy into his walled front garden, but when Michael
knocked on the door the dog darted through the gap and pounced.
Michael's father Graham, 37, a builder, said at their home in
Horton Bank Top, Bradford, West Yorkshire: "The same dog attacked
my wife Sonya three years ago." She felt terrible now that she had
not reported the attack.
He said Michael's left eye was saved by his ...