An elderly gran was left spooked after a human skull and dozens of bones were dumped in her garden by grave-wrecking badgers. Ann Mathers, 88, called police after making the grim discovery which also saw several femurs and jaw bones scattered in her flowerbeds.
The gran, who has lived in her end terrace house in Dudley, West Midlands, for more than 60 years, was said to be “scared to death” by the grave-robbing critters. She first found the skull last July and called police who initially sealed her home off as a potential crime scene.
Officers then discovered the culprit was a colony of badgers dragging the remains into her garden from a nearby cemetery. It emerged the animals were getting access to the graveyard via a public footpath running between the cemetery and Ann’s house.
