Crocodile fears are deflated by toy discovery

Police and wildlife experts were called to a garden after reports of an escaped crocodile — and found it was an inflatable toy.

A mother-of-one was horrified to spot the 3ft (1m) green reptile outside her kitchen window in Cundy Close, Plymouth, at 12.20pm.

She asked two neighbours for assistance but called police after they agreed it was too dangerous to approach the creature unarmed.