>>39010547 "I heard shouting, 'Get him off! Get him off me!'" neighbor Geoff Morgan told the BBC. "He was shouting really loudly. He was bleeding from his neck. There was a lot of blood."
Another neighbor told the Guardian that the dog had attacked Perivoitos at least once in recent memory.
"Six or seven months ago the dog bit him on the leg," said the neighbor, identified only as Tayfun. "We heard him shout at the dog and he came running out with blood on his leg."
Still, Tayfun added, Perivoitos "loved the dog more than himself."
Angela Constantinou told The (UK) Telegraph that Periviotos "had two master's degrees. He was very intelligent, he was really kind."
But she said in recent years he had experienced drug problems and his health had suffered as a result.
Police told British media that the dog had been placed in a secure kennel.
Perivoitos's Staffordshire bull terrier was not covered by Britain's Dangerous Dogs Act. Passed more than 25 years ago, the law sought to crack down on fighting dogs and potentially lethal breeds after a 6-year-old girl was mauled by a pit bull terrier while playing in her front yard. The law has remained controversial, with attack victims saying it doesn't go far enough.
