FACING UP

SHOCK REPORT Cruel comments & discrimination are the norm for the thousands of Scots living with disfigurements

RYAN’S STORY PEOPLE STARED

A WALK gathering chestnuts turned to horror when six-year-old Ryan Booth was savaged by two English bulldogs which “came from nowhere”. Mum Claire, 40, said: “When they let go, a chunk of his left ear was missing and there were bites all over his body and head.”

Ryan, now seven, had surgery on his ear but doctors couldn’t reattach the missing piece.

Claire added: “He was in hospital for about five days and while we were there one of the nurses told us about Changing