SIGHTING, UK: African big cat spotted on the prowl at Carn Brea in Cornwall

A couple were left shocked and mesmerised when they watched what they describe as a big cat prowling near a Cornish landmark last week.

Richard Searby-Bates and his partner Aimee Clark had just got out of their car by the railway line which runs at the bottom of Carn Brea, near Redruth, when they spotted a large wild cat.

Richard told Cornwall Live: “We were visiting the industrial estate and were getting out of the car when I just froze … I had to do a double take. About 20ft away was a cat which I think was about 25 inches from the floor to the ridge of its shoulders.
“It was properly on the prowl.

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