07/06/2010
London Fox Attacks NI Mum's Babies
A fox has seriously injured two children as they slept in their own beds.
Their Northern Ireland-born mother has described how a fox mauled her nine-month-old twin girls daughters as they slept in their cots in east London.
Lola and Isabella Koupparis were attacked at about 10pm on Saturday with the BBC reporting that the fox apparently entered the house through an open ground-floor door before attacking the twins in an upstairs room.
Both girls suffered arm injuries and one is thought to have facial injuries.
The girls' mother, Pauline said: "It's a living nightmare.
"It's something I would never have expected to happen - let alone to us and my beautiful girls," she added.
"It was quite muffled but very pained. I went into the room and I saw some blood in Isabella's cot, I thought she had a nosebleed. "I put on the light, I saw the fox, it just looked at me and it wasn't even scared of me.
"I started screaming as I realised Lola was also covered in blood."
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "Officers and the London Ambulance Service attended and found two nine-month-old girls with injuries.
"Both babies were taken to an east London hospital where their condition is described as serious but stable."
The girls' mother said Lola "looks dreadful. One side of her face is beautiful. The other side is like something from a horror movie".
Pest controllers have since set fox traps in the back garden of the house and a fox discovered in one of the devices on Sunday night has been destroyed by a vet.
(BMcC/GK)
Their Northern Ireland-born mother has described how a fox mauled her nine-month-old twin girls daughters as they slept in their cots in east London.
Lola and Isabella Koupparis were attacked at about 10pm on Saturday with the BBC reporting that the fox apparently entered the house through an open ground-floor door before attacking the twins in an upstairs room.
Both girls suffered arm injuries and one is thought to have facial injuries.
The girls' mother, Pauline said: "It's a living nightmare.
"It's something I would never have expected to happen - let alone to us and my beautiful girls," she added.
"It was quite muffled but very pained. I went into the room and I saw some blood in Isabella's cot, I thought she had a nosebleed. "I put on the light, I saw the fox, it just looked at me and it wasn't even scared of me.
"I started screaming as I realised Lola was also covered in blood."
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: "Officers and the London Ambulance Service attended and found two nine-month-old girls with injuries.
"Both babies were taken to an east London hospital where their condition is described as serious but stable."
The girls' mother said Lola "looks dreadful. One side of her face is beautiful. The other side is like something from a horror movie".
Pest controllers have since set fox traps in the back garden of the house and a fox discovered in one of the devices on Sunday night has been destroyed by a vet.
(BMcC/GK)
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