A hospital photograph has emerged showing a prominent real estate agent recovering after he was seriously injured in a brutal dog attack in Brisbane’s north last week.
Ajay Malik was jogging through 7th Brigade Park in Chermside on Friday night when two dogs attacked him, leaving him with life-threatening injuries to his face and arms.
A GoFundMe campaign launched by Mr Malik’s brother-in-law, Aryan Sirohi, described the incident as a “frightening, life-changing experience” that began during what should have been a routine evening.
“Ajay will be unable to work for a long time. That means a significant loss of income for him and his wife, at the same time as medical and rehabilitation costs begin to add up,” Mr Sirohi wrote on the fundraising page.
The Artier Property Group director remained in hospital in a stable condition on Monday, Daily Mail reported.
Speaking to Seven News, Mr Malik’s wife said the couple remained traumatised by the attack and warned that he faces a lengthy recovery.
As police investigated the assault, officers made a grim discovery nearby on Sunday morning: the decomposing body of a man.
Police said the body was found about 100 metres from the location of the dog attack, but the two incidents are not believed to be connected.
A hospital photograph has emerged showing high-profile real estate agent Ajay Malik after he was seriously injured in a vicious dog attack in Brisbane’s Chermside last week
Brisbane City Council seized the two dogs allegedly responsible for the attack
Real estate agent Ajay Malik was jogging through 7th Brigade Park in Chermside on Friday night when two dogs mauled him
Investigations into the circumstances surrounding the 48-year-old man’s death are continuing.
The two dogs involved in the attack were captured and seized by Brisbane City Council after police shot them.
The council said both animals were registered to the same address and had never previously been declared dangerous.
Queensland Police told Daily Mail that officers faced an “immediate and serious safety risk” when they located the dogs.
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After initial efforts to subdue the animals failed, officers “were required to discharge their service firearms in response to the risk posed to members of the community and others at the scene”, police said.
“As with all police use of force incidents, the matter has been recorded and reviewed by senior officers in accordance with Queensland Police Service policy and procedures.”
Brisbane City Council confirmed that destruction orders would be issued for both dogs, which remain at an animal shelter in council custody.
The dogs were identified as a bulldog-American Staffordshire terrier cross and a bulldog-boxer cross.
The dogs’ owner, Layla Evans, was arrested on an unrelated matter by police hours after the attack
Ms Evans now has 14 days to appeal council’s decision to euthanise her dogs. Pictured is one captured by police following the attack
The dogs’ owner, Layla Evans, has 14 days to appeal the council decision.
A devastated Ms Evans, 22, gave a Nine News interview about her dogs on Saturday shortly before she was arrested by police on an unrelated matter.
Ms Evans was later released from custody and is now ‘sick with worry’ about the possible fate of her beloved pets Louis and Ruby.
‘I’m thinking about appealing it (the council’s order to destroy the dogs) but I haven’t even looked at the paperwork and I don’t know if I’ve got the money for this stuff,’ she told the Courier Mail.
Ms Evans is homeless and had been living in a tent in nearby bushland when her dogs escaped while she was away on Friday night.
She insisted that the dogs had not previously been aggressive and were not dangerous.
‘I don’t want anyone to get hurt; I always tell my dogs off if they ever show any signs of aggression – they’re just protective,’ she said.
‘They’ve never got out of their pens, it was deep in the bush so no-one would stumble across it.
‘Whoever went in there had to be going there on purpose, you don’t just accidentally walk into my tent.’
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