The elderly victim of a savage dog attack that left the flesh hanging from his arm is livid that the dog is back on the streets of Greymouth illegally, and that no one is being held to account.
Jimmy Hambley, 82, said he felt a "little sick to the tummy" whenever he thought about the incident, and the fact the bull mastiff had been stolen from the Greymouth pound, where it had been on death row since the May 1 unprovoked attack.
Six weeks later he remains in "a lot of pain" and is still visited by a nurse up to three times a week to dress the wound.
"It is healing, though, but it is going to take quite some time - it will be months before it comes right."
Mr Hambley could not believe the people involved in busting the dog out of the pound in broad daylight, while the dog control officer's back was turned, appeared to have got off scott free.
