A suspected leopard’s lair full of discarded sheep bones has been found in the British countryside.
Big cat hunter Darren Tinsley stumbled upon the den in an abandoned, metal pipe.
Half eaten sheep carcasses were strewn inside.
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Nearby other remains were discovered in similar conditions.
The 42-year-old said the skin had been peeled back and bones licked clean of flesh.
He believes the creature responsible could be a leopard or puma prowling around Frodsham, near Runcorn, Cheshire.
He said: “They all looked like they have been savaged.
“All the bodies looked like a cat had torn the skin back and eaten it from the insides and out.
“All the skin had been cleaned off like they had been licked off by a big cat.
“There were a few carcasses inside and around the pipe.
“There were others around a tree at the other end of the field – easy places for a cat to kill and eat them without being noticed.”
He added he’d had five big cat sightings over 28 years.
“My first one was in 1997 then 1999 but I didn’t see another until around 2014,” he told What’s The Jam.
“It was close up just meters away so I got a good look and then then again in 2015 and 2016.
“But that was the last time – I have not seen not one seen since.
“When I saw one up close it confirmed it for me.
“So I know what I knew I saw every other time.
“I have been obsessed since.”
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