The mother who was brutally mauled to death by a great white shark while on holiday with her family in South Africa has been named.

Restaurant owner Kimon Bisogno, 39, had taken a Bank Holiday weekend away from the pizza house she ran in Cape Town with the ‘love-of-her-life’ Diego Milesi, 40, to a sun-kissed beach in Plettenberg Bay.

The couple and their daughter Luna, five, drove 300 miles from their home to the luxury Beacon Isle hotel complex for three days, to relax after rebuilding their business post-Covid.

Just before 8am yesterday, Kimon went into the water for an early morning dip and was said to be only waist deep when the great white attacked through a wave with her family yards away.

Witnesses said the sea around Kimon ‘turned red’ and fellow swimmers fled the water screaming and a desperate call went out to the local lifeboat for help but it was too dangerous for locals to go in.

The inshore craft from the National Sea Rescue Institute was launched and was quickly on the scene and found Kimon’s blood-soaked body floating in the surf about 50 yards out from where she was attacked.

The instant attack was so brutal that nothing could be done to save the young mother as the rescuers pulled her badly bitten body onto a stretcher and returned to base.

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