Keiron Guess, two, needed a ten-hour op to save his life, rebuild his face and restore sight in one eye after being attacked by a Staffordshire bull terrier.
Speaking exclusively to The Sun, mum Stacey Drury, 22, and dad Anthony Guess, 25, relived the Diamond Jubilee weekend horror which left their son without a nose, ear and bone above and below one eye.
Keiron was pictured at home days after his discharge from hospital, where he spent a week in an induced coma.
The family’s world turned into a “scene from a horror movie” on Sunday, June 3 when Stacey, Anthony and their two children Mackenzie, four, and Keiron returned home after a fun day at their local park had been cancelled due to bad weather.
Anthony’s dad Dave Guess, 49, was working on the couple’s bathroom at their two-bedroom terrace home in Swindon, Wilts.
Stacey, who had just found out she was pregnant, recalled: “We’d only been back ten minutes and decided to go to the chippy for our supper.
“Dave had walked ahead to get some tools from his van and Mackenzie and Keiron followed. Seconds later, we could not see Keiron.”
Scaffolder Anthony said: “We panicked. I ran down the alley by the house but he wasn’t there.”Stacey hurried up the road with Mackenzie thinking that Keiron had wandered off to see his gran, who lives nearby.
But Anthony said: “A neighbour ran out screaming, ‘A dog’s got him!’.”
At that moment, Dave came across the lad being mauled to within an inch of his life in a back garden.
Source: The Sun, 2nd July, 2012
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