A BRIT travel agent's holiday became a "nightmare" when he discovered a leech sucking on his EYEBALL.

Tony Exall was on a jungle tour near West Papua, Indonesia on May 22 this year when his left eye began to irritate him.

The 58-year-old blamed it on sweat or a tiny bug but two hours later a fellow visitor spotted he actually had a leech on his eyeball.

A horrifying photo shows Tony's bloodshot eye with the small black bloodsucker latched to the white area called the sclera.

Tony grew concerned it might wriggle its way behind his eye so ended his trip early to find medical help.

After six hours and trips to two hospitals a doctor extracted the leech using tweezers - despite the creature pulling on his eyeball tissue to hang on.

The leech had fallen into Tony's eye during a photog

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