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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Dave Burke

'Losing my son, 10, in dog attack was unimaginable - we MUST stop this happening again'

Emma Whitfield will make a heartfelt plea to MPs today to introduce the Jack Lis Law so no other mother endures the heartbreak and trauma of losing a child to a dog attack.

Her son Jack Lis, 10, was mauled to death by an XL Bully in November 2021, and since then 16 more people have died in dog attacks, including a woman in her 70s at the weekend.

Emma, 32, will urge MPs to back the Mirror’s campaign for changes to the Dangerous Dogs Act, telling them: “Everything I’m doing, I’m doing for Jack, to stop another Jack from happening.

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