PROTECT OUR KIDS

Identifying my Jack by being shown his shoe was heart-breaking. I want to make sure nobody else is ever put in the position of me and my family.....

- DAVE BURKE

EMMA Whitfield will today make a heartfelt plea to MPs to introduce the Jack Lis Law so no other mother endures the heartbreak and trauma of losing a child to a dog attack.

Her son Jack Lis, 10, was mauled to death by an XL Bully in November 2021, and since then 16 more people have died in dog attacks, including a woman in her 70s at the weekend.

Emma, 32, will urge MPs to back the Mirror's campaign for changes to the Dangerous Dogs Act, telling them: "Everything I'm doing, I'm doing for Jack, to stop another Jack from happening.

"I want to make sure that nobody else is ever put in the position of me and my family. I know I can't change what has happened, but there are people who have the power to change the future.

"I am speaking here today to try to be a part of that change."

Emma has joined the Mirror, the Dog Control Coalition and Labour MP Wayne David to fight for the Jack Lis Law, which will change the act and introduce tougher penalties to stop the epidemic of maulings and killings. In a video message to the All Party Parliamentary Dog Advisory Welfare Group, Emma will recall the day her son died, telling them: "Identifying Jack by being shown his shoe was heart-breaking.