An eight-year-old schoolgirl "can't wait" to show people who knock at her house what she has in her freezer.
Julia Zeineddine, 30, from Halewood, took her daughter, Epiphany, and another child she cares for to Llandudno, Wales, on Thursday, June 8. They went to the circus before heading to the beach to watch the sunset.
But it was when they were walking along the sand that the mum said she saw something unusual lying at the shoreline.
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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."
Now the shark is back home in Netherton with Julia and Epiphany and is living 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
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