Previous fox attacks on children Marius Rook, five, woke to find a marauding fox in his bedroom. The animal had got in through an open window and crept up to the third floor of the house in Hackney, east London. His mother, Annette, ran to Marius' room to find her son crying and complaining about a pain in his ear. She called police who used a noose to drag the animal from their home. Nine-month-old twins Isabella and Lola Koupparis were savaged by a fox in their cots after it crept into their home, also in Hackney. Their parents dialled 999 after finding Isabella with deep cuts to her arm and Lola's face covered in blood. Both girls were taken to the Royal London Hospital where they were given antibiotics and had surgery. The family underwent counselling to help them come to terms with the traumatic attack and called for more to be done by councils to control the growing number of foxes in the capital. The case sparked a national outcry as some questioned the couple's story amid fears of a backlash against urban foxes. Later the same month toddler Jake Jermy was taken to hospital after reports he had been attacked by a fox while attending a party at a school in Brighton, East Sussex. It was understood the three-year-old was bitten on the arm after he stroked the tail of the animal, which was sticking out from under a temporary building and it then turned on him. September 2003 Four-year-old Jessica Brown was bitten on the arm when a fox crept into her upstairs bedroom in Tufnell Park, north London, while she was sleeping. Peter Day told of how a fox attacked his baby son Louis at his home in Dartford, Kent. The 14-week-old suffered four puncture wounds on his head and had to be kept in hospital overnight. Mr Day said: "I came into the living room and there was a fox sitting there beside my wife. He had already done the damage to Louis. I picked him up and chased the fox out of the house and all the way up the garden.