The sons of a woman who was mauled to death by her XL Bully dogs are believed to have raised the alarm after finding her fighting for her life.
Angeline Mahal, 50, was found yesterday fighting for her life in a house in Hornchurch, East London.
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Angelina Mahal was mauled to death by her XL Bully dogs
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Angelina’s family says they begged her to get rid of the dogs
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Her family paid a heartbreaking tribute
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Police outside Hornchurch home where dog attack took placeCredit: SWNS
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Police armed with riot shields stormed the property last nightCredit: LNP
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A bracelet with an ‘angel’ on it was removed from the property in an evidence bagCredit: SWNS
Officers with riot shields rushed to Cornwall Close and stormed the property after receiving frantic calls about a “critical incident”.
Angeline, named locally and pictured, could not be saved and the two XL Bully dogs, who were at the center of 13 fatal attacks in less than three years, were seized by officers.
The beautician – known to friends as Angel – was discovered by her devastated sons lying in her hallway after being attacked.
A close family member said he feared Angelina had been dead for many hours before she was discovered.
He told The Sun: “We miss her, she was honest and everyone loved her.
“We asked her to get rid of the dogs. The bond with the owners and their dogs is too strong.”
He said: “She had two dogs when they were puppies. They were registered. It is more likely that one of them attacked her.
“We are just shocked. You hear about these attacks in the newspapers, but you never expect it to happen to your family.
“Her sons are the ones who raised the alarm. They tried to do CPR to save her.
“We miss Angelina, she was an honest woman with a good heart.
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“I told her many times to get rid of the dogs. This is an aggressive breed. She had them from puppies.
“We all read about the attack in Jaywick and it scared us.
“She had many dogs over the years. It’s hard to pay attention to them. The dogs took up a lot of her time, they took away her freedom.
“She kept them in cages in one of the rooms.
“The whole family is distraught over this, her sons are devastated. Angelina was loved by everyone.”
Close neighbors say the victim lived alone, but was regularly visited by her two sons.
One local resident said: “The dogs would bark all the time, we were all aware of them.
“We could hear some commotion and when I looked outside, one of the lady’s sons was crying.
“He looked devastated. It was horrible to watch. They called the police because they arrived really quickly.
“The paramedics arrived with the police and started CPR on her.
“About three hours later we were evacuated and had to stand outside the cordon.”
A horrified grandmother has told how she saw medics desperately performing CPR on her neighbor – before officers evacuated local residents.
The woman, 72, told The Sun: “I’ve never seen so many police and paramedics. It was terrifying.
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The forensic scientist leaves the house Credits: PA
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A forensic pathologist carries black bin bags to the scene Credit: ROB WELHAM / McLELLAN
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The inscription on the gate of the estate says: ‘Don’t mind the dog, beware of the children’. Credit: SWNS
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The cordon remains in place today Credits: LNP
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Two police officers guard the scene of the crimeCredit: LNP
“I went outside to see what was going on, and they were doing chest compressions on a lady on the floor in front of her house.
“The police asked us to go back inside. About an hour later, the police came and asked us to evacuate. We were all taken to the edge of the cordon and had to wait.
“It was really horrible. Requiring dogs to be registered is simply not enough to stop this, more needs to be done.”
Other neighbors have now told how horrified they were after hearing about the bullying, calling it “appalling”.
One, who did not want to be named, told the Mirror: “The dogs weren’t killed, they took them away.
“The vans have been going back and forth non-stop since lunchtime and we saw the helicopter coming and you assume the worst.
“Champion [a nearby school and sixth form college] it’s not far from here so you panic that it’s children or something.
“You never think a dog would do that. It’s horrible.”
The police remained at the scene this morning, and the blue tent was still standing in the garden in front of the house.
A sticker on the window of the house read: “Don’t worry about the dog, watch out for the children.”
Meanwhile, mother-of-one Sejal Solanki, 37, who lives in Cornwall Close, said she saw a woman walking an XL thug without a muzzle outside the victim’s house last week.
She told The Sun: “Last night I could hear dogs barking and then the whole road was full of police cars.
“About a week ago I was with my son and I saw an XL thug being walked by a woman in front of that house. He had no muzzle.
“I explained to my seven-year-old son that it is a dangerous dog and that he should never pet that dog. I told him never to approach him.
“Many children pass here to get to school and there are always children playing here.
“The fact that those dogs did that to her. Can you imagine if it came out and children were playing in the street.
Fatal XL Bully attacks
Woman in her 50s mauled to death by two XL Bully dogs at home in Hornchurch, East London on 20 May 2024.
Esther Martin, 68, was babysitting her grandson in Jaywick, Essex, when she was attacked by dogs Bear and Beauty on February 3, 2024.
Ian “Scouse” Langley, 54, was protecting his puppy when the animal pounced on him outside his home in Sunderland in October 2023.
Ian Price, 52, was viciously mauled by the beasts in September 2023 as he tried to protect his elderly mother from them after they escaped.
Jonathan Hogg, 37, was killed in May 2023. He walked into the dog’s pen when it came towards him, leaving bite wounds on his arm, leg and head.
Natasha Johnston, 28, was mauled to death while walking a pack of dogs in January 2023. She is believed to have been killed by her own pet – American Bully XL.
Shirley Patrick, 83, died 17 days after she was mauled to death in a “hellish”, violent dog attack in December 2022.
Ian Symes, 34, known as “Wiggy” by friends, died at a recreation ground in Fareham, Hampshire, after the savage attack in August 2022.
Joanne Robinson, 43, was fatally injured by her pet Rocco at her home in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, in July 2022.
Keven Jones, 62, died of cardiac arrest after being bitten by Cookie-Doe at Chanel Fong’s home in Wrexham, North Wales in May 2022.
Bella-Rae Birch, one, was beaten to death in her home in March 2022 by an American thug, XL.
Jack Lee, 10, was killed by a bulky XL Bully dog named Beast in November 2021 while playing at a friend’s home in Caerphilly.
“It’s not worth thinking about.
“I’m really glad they put the ban in place, but even then it doesn’t stop things like this from happening.
“People will just register them and still have them. No difference. People can still own those dogs.”
Another neighbor said: “She was a pleasant woman, very lovely.
“You could hear the dogs barking, but I never saw them.
– I knew her as Angel.
A bracelet that was taken from the house in a clear plastic bag also said ‘Angel’. Other neighbors also knew her by that name, while a man who lives opposite said that she “didn’t talk much.”
A man who worked at a house a few doors down from the victim said he saw the woman being taken out of the house “on a bed” yesterday, but found it strange he didn’t hear the brutal attack.
“I never heard any noises,” he said.
“A colleague of mine showed up at 20:10 and there were so many police and armed officers.
“Armed police officers arrived immediately. We thought it was a stabbing or a shooting or something.
“We saw someone being pulled out of the house on a bed for CPR.
“I couldn’t see her because there were too many people around her.
“It was strange, because there were no sounds… That’s the strange thing about it.
“I talked to the policeman [yesterday afternoon]and she said it happened yesterday, so I guess it could have happened during the night.”
From 1st February it is illegal to own an XL Bully in England and Wales without a certificate is an offence.
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The mother is believed to have been killed by two XL thugs (photo) Credit: Getty
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Police guarding the cordon last nightCredit: LNP
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The blue forensics tent was at the scene last nightCredit: LNP
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A riot police officer at the scene yesterdayCredit: LNP
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