Mum's shock at finding headless deer on Cornwall beach while enjoying family walk

A family out for a casual walk were left shocked and frightened after discovering a decapitated deer on a Cornish beach.

Mollie Nash was enjoying a stroll with her children on Portreath beach on the north coast of Cornwall when she came across the headless deer. She said the animal must have been killed and beheaded quite recently as there was no sign of decomposition and blood was still streaking out of the fatal neck wound.

The mum from Falmouth said: "I came across a headless deer washed up on Portreath beach on a family beach trip and it [seems] unexplainable. It was relatively fresh as it had blood coming from the neck and no sign of decomposition. As you can imagine the kids were frightened and nobody seemed to know what to do with it."