‘No need to put a toy in a chocolate egg’

A REPORT on chocolate eggs with toys inside says the risk they pose to children is very low. But that’s of little comfort to Aileen Breslin.

Her three-year-old only son Roddy helped himself to one of the brightly-covered eggs in their local shop when she went in to pick up something for the tea.

"He had the cover half off and his mouth covered in chocolate when I discovered what he was at," she recalls.