A police force issued it’s ‘strangest ever appeal’ this week – after someone reported seeing a crocodile dumped in a river.

Officers at Derbyshire Rural Crime Team appealed for clues about a washed-up crocodile in Willington, South Derbyshire, on Thursday.

The team said an onlooker spotted a dead crocodile suspected to have been dumped in the river.

The discovery caused some fear and concern among police staff after the reptile was sighted between bridge 22 and 22a on the Trent and Mersey Canal near Mercia Marina. Police arrived at the scene to find the crocodile had disappeared, prompting a public appeal for anyone with information about the creature.

In a Facebook post on Thursday, the team wrote: ‘We know this is probably the strangest appeal ever to grace our Facebook page; however

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