Vicarage Road Samaritans who helped move a drunk cyclist off the road, made a grisly discovery the next morning, when they found he had left behind a pig's head in a carrier bag.

The partially shaved head, complete with eyes and teeth, was found in a plain white bag, and had no markings on it.

A Vicarage Road resident, who asked not to be named, said: “At about 10pm on Friday there was a drunk man with a bike lying in the middle of a road. A bus came around the corner and nearly hit him. The driver opened the doors and shouted at the man and he tried to move off the road.

“We moved him onto the grass verge and called the police, who said they'd already been called, but he was still there at 10.55pm.

“The bag which was attached to his bike fell off, and the next day my neighbour came round and told me there was a head in the bag. I didn't believe her so I told my kids to go have a look and they came back shouting: 'There's a head, there's a head'. I'm surprised the foxes haven't had it yet.”

Next to the head was a pair of pink and green ski gloves and a woolly black “St Andrews Golf Course” hat.

Samantha Wilson, 13, called the Watford Observer this morning to say she had found the head near King George playing fields yesterday afternoon.

She said: “I was out playing with friends and I saw a snout poking out of a carrier bag. I went to have a look and saw a pig's head with a pair of gloves inside. I screamed when I saw it because it still had eyes and teeth and skin.

“When I told my mum she said to call the police, but they told me it wasn't a police matter and to call the RSPCA. They told me it wasn't anything to do with them and to call the local council.”

Mr Fisher, a butcher from Watford, said that normally a butcher's shop would buy the pig without a head.

“You can get them with heads but it's not done so much any more,” he said “If a customer wanted one they'd have to come in and order it. You can boil it to make brawn or use the cheeks, but people don't have the knowledge to bone out a pig's head any more.”

Watford Borough Council said the head has now been collected.

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