A man in London has been mauled to death by his dog while being interviewed by a BBC film crew, and his neighbours are now claiming that the dog had attacked the man before.
Mario Perivoitos, 41, was with the film crew shooting an unnamed documentary when his Staffordshire bull terrier attacked him, biting him on the neck. The BBC crew called an ambulance, and the man was pronounced dead two hours later. His death was confirmed by the Metropolitan Police.
A neighbour, Geoff Morgan, 52, said he heard a commotion in the above apartment at the time of the attack. “I heard shouting – ‘Get him off! Get him off me!’
“He was shouting really loudly. He was bleeding from his neck. There was a lot of blood.”
According to The Guardian, another neighbour said that this wasn’t the first time Perivoitos’ dog had attacked him. “There were one or two previous occasions when the dog attacked,” he said. “Six or seven months ago the dog bit him on the leg. We heard him shout at the dog and he came running out with blood on his leg.”
The BBC has declined to identify what the documentary was about, though police confirmed it had nothing to do with the production focused on policing in London, named The Met: Policing London. The BBC also said in a statement that while they were interviewing Perivoitos, they were not filming:
A crew making a BBC documentary were present – but not filming – at the time of the incident and called an ambulance. Given the ongoing inquiries, it would not be appropriate to comment further.
A postmortem examination carried out last Friday gave the cause of death as damage to the airway and hypovolemic shock – a condition caused by massive blood loss.
Source: The Guardian.
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