DOGS TORE A HOLE IN MY SON’S HEAD
Mum speaks out after Harry, 8, was mauled by 2 ferocious bull mastiffs
AN eight-year-old boy was left with a gaping hole in his head after a horror attack by two bull mastiffs.
Harry Lawrie’s anguished mum Michelle said her son has been traumatised by the beasts and has had to endure two operations to stitch the skin on his skull together again.
A DISTRAUGHT mum has told how her eight-year-old son was left with a gaping hole in his head after he was mauled by two ferocious bull mastiff dogs in a horrific attack.
Michelle Lawrie, 37, says her eightyear-old son Harry has been traumatised and is now having night terrors after being savaged by the dangerous animals.
The schoolboy has already faced two operations to try to stitch the skin back together on his skull following the horror incident on July 16.
The muscles and tendons on his arm have been left damaged, he has large lacerations on his head and puncture wounds on his shoulder.
Michelle, from Elderslie, Renfrewshire, said: “These dogs absolutely mauled him.
“One of them had my child’s whole head in its mouth.
“They ripped a chunk of skin off the back of his skull. He has been left with a gaping hole in his head where the skin has come right off and there wasn’t anything to stitch back up.
“And he has two big gashes on the side of his head. I don’t even know how many stitches he has had to get to close the wounds. It is just awful.
“He has had two operations already and we don’t know if he is going to have to have more.
“He is also going to have to get physiotherapy on his arm as the dogs bit through tendons and muscles in his arm and they don’t know how badly damaged it is yet.”
Harry had been visiting a house in Hagg Crescent in Johnstone with his dad when the terrifying attack took place.
Michelle says Harry was bitten and scratched by one of the dogs in the house and ran outside in tears. Harry’s dad then followed him to make sure he was OK. But it was then she said that the second dog ran out and lunged at the youngster, clamping it’s jaws around his head. His frantic dad desperately tried to free Harry from its jaws, and he then rushed him to the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley. He was quickly transferred to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow where he underwent surgery on Thursday night. Plastic surgeons then operated on the schoolboy again on Sunday. Michelle said: “I still cannot believe what I saw when I got to the hospital. It was absolutely horrific. He was in such a state.” Police said : “A man and a woman, both aged 66, have been charged and a report has been sent to the procurator fiscal.”