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Emma Gritt & Peter Diamond

Pet chimp owner screams ‘he ripped her face off’ in harrowing police phone call

A woman who raised a pet chimpanzee as her son for 14 years has talked about the moment he ripped her friend’s face off in a frenzied attack.

Sandra Herold adopted Travis the chimp when he was just three days old, but after sharing a bed with his owner and cooking his own microwave meals the monkey finally snapped.

The night Charla Nash came to the aid of her friend Sandra will haunt her for the rest of her life after the primal chimp began to attack her and eat her face.

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