An eight-year-old schoolgirl who found a shark on the beach during a trip to Wales picked it up and put it in the back of the family car, and it is now sitting in her freezer where she shows it off to everyone who comes to the house.
Julia Zeineddine took her daughter, Epiphany to Llandudno on Thursday where they went to the beach to watch the sunset. While walking on the beach they saw something unusual lying at the shoreline.
Julia, who is a support worker, told the ECHO: "I took my little girl and a lad I look after, to the circus for the day. After the circus we went to the beach for sunset. We just saw it on the shoreline, it was dead and must have got stuck as the tide went out. I was like 'oh my god, I can't believe it'.
"I was gobsmacked. I've never seen a shark in real life before. I put it on the back seat and went home. The car was stinking of fish."
Julia Zeineddine, 30, from Halewood, took her daughter, Epiphany, found a shark at the beach
Now the shark is back home with Julia and Epiphany and is in the freezer. The 30-year-old said: "He's currently chilling in the freezer, he'll be alright in there though as there's salmon in there. When people knock at the door my kid wants to show it off.
"I don't know if there's a marine biologist who is interested in it."
The shark is believed to be a small-spotted catshark, which can be found all year around in the UK. They are named due to the dark spots and blotches covering its skin.
They are highly common around the UK and live close to the seabed in shallow waters down to 100m deep. They sometimes wash up dead on our beaches after storms
