A WOMAN who was mauled by three dogs has described how cruel bystanders filmed the attack instead of helping her.
Lakaydia Reynolds was walking through Abbots Park, Lambeth, south London, on her way to a driving lesson when she was savaged by the beasts.
The horror unfolded on June 6, with videos circulating onlineTwitter – @respawnedtarga1
The horror unfolded on June 6, with videos circulating online of the attack.
In terrifying scenes caught on camera the dogs leapt up at Lakaydia before dragging her to the ground as the owner lost complete control.
One of the dogs was an American Pitbull Terrier, a dog banned in the UK.
The 24-year-old has now revealed how she is unable to watch the video and thought she was going to die.
“I was screaming, asking for help, asking him for help,” Lakaydia told the BBC’s Reliable Sauce podcast.
“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?”
She continued: “Knowing that people can watch the thing that ruined my life – everybody can see it.
“The hardest thing was knowing that somebody recorded it – I thought I was going to die. So it was like, ‘were you going to record it until I had [died]?’.”
In the clip circulating online Lakaydia could be seen being pinned to the ground by the dogs as she screamed out in terror.
The vicious attack unfolded as the animals jumped at the victim’s face dragging her down by her hair for the second time.
As two of the dogs got on top of her while she lay helplessly on the ground, the owner managed to tackle the third and grab its collar.
Managing to get up off the grass as she screamed out in pain, the man grabbed the second animal, pulling it off her.
The owner then tried kicking the third canine, still attached to the woman, in a bid to get it to stop as he screamed: “Rocco, Rocco”.
The vicious hound then bit onto the woman’s arm and pulled it side to side as she was pinned up against a fence.
Lakaydia recalled: “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.”
The owner was interviewed under caution on June 15 and remains under investigation.
Lakaydia spent a week in hospital and required plastic surgery. Her right arm is no longer mobile.
“I’ve been impacted mentally, socially, emotionally and physically,” she added.
“One of the most difficult things for me is the fact that I can’t do anything myself, so I have to rely on people to help me.”
It comes as a man with his puppy was mauled to death by an XL Bully in Sunderland yesterday.
The Government is looking to ban American XL bully dogs in response to the attacks.
PM Rishi Sunak promised to ban the breed in September under the Dangerous Dogs Act by the end of the year.
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