Police report possible sighting of man-eating croc

Authorities searching for a crocodile and the remains of a man it killed believe they may have spotted the reptile in the stretch of river where the attack took place in northern Australia, police said today.

The crocodile that killed Brett Mann, 22, on December 21 in the Northern Territory’s Finniss River was unusually large – at around 13ft – and experts are hopeful the creature was seen in the same stretch of the river late yesterday, provincial police spokesman John McCourt said.