SIGHTINGS, UK: Sightings of big cats in Norfolk have tailed off, new figures reveal

Sightings of elusive big cats, which scores of people have claimed to have spotted prowling through parts of Norfolk, tailed off in recent years, new figures have revealed.

For years, there have been rumours of creatures roaming the countryside, but a marked lack of evidence to prove it.


A Freedom Of Information Act request has revealed that Norfolk Constabulary has received 96 reports of big cat sightings over the past decade.


However, while the peak year for such sightings was 2013, when there were 19 reports, just one person called police last year to report that they had seen a big cat.
The FOI request, which was submitted to the police by a member of the public, asked the police for all reported big cat sightings since 2010.


The force carried out a check of all incidents which had been recorded over that period which included the keywords big cat, large cat, puma, panther, cougar, jaguar and lynx.


The bulk of the sightings happened in the first half of the decade, with 74 between 2010 and 2014. From 2015 until 2019 there were 22 - just four of which were in the past two years.

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