In the lead up to the fatal attack, Del Taylor, who was visiting with her boyfriend, said Mr Chapman appeared happy when he approached her and handed over his phone to take a photograph of him with the tiger in the background.
Speaking in an update shared on TikTok, she said: “He was so happy and then he’s come and placed himself next to us and he passed me his phone and he asked me for a photo.”
Anthony Hunt, who was visiting the park with his girlfriend Scarlet, said the couple noticed the tiger suddenly change its behaviour while they were photographing it, before noticing Mr Chapman had broken into the enclosure.
“When Scarlet was taking photos, we suddenly saw in the camera lens that a guy had entered the enclosure,” he explained to Sky News.
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