Escaped 9ft python that terrorised streets of Cambridge is found up a TREE and returned safely to its owner

• Turin the reticulated python went missing on Sunday at around midnight 
• Police gave up hunt for concealed creature after a day, saying he was not a risk 
• Snake didn’t get very far – he was found up a tree on road of his owner’s home

A 9ft reticulated python that slithered through the streets of Cambridge for five days has been found up a tree and returned to its owner.

Turin the snake escaped through an open bedroom window on Sunday morning, leading police to start a hunt for the concealed creature.

But after just a day, they gave up, saying the python poses a risk only to small animals and not people.

His desperate owner, Ivan, put up signs in his neighbourhood asking people not to harm his pet as ‘he’s completely harmless and very used to people’, reports Cambridgeshire Live. 

A 9ft reticulated python that slithered through the streets of Cambridge for five days has been found up a tree and returned to its owner (file photo) 

Fortunately, the snake didn’t manage to get very far – and was found up a tree on the very street he escaped from.

Michael Barton, who spotted the python, told Cambridgeshire Live: ‘We saw it up there on a tree just next door about half an hour ago.

‘Then the owner came round and used a ladder to climb up and get it down. He is a big snake and we got to touch it, my wife touched it on the head.’

The python, which kills its prey by constriction rather than venom, normally eats mammals such as rats, but there have been several reported human fatalities in the wild and captivity.

Turin certainly captured the hearts of local residents, who set up both a dating profile on Tinder and a Twitter account. 

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