The one way is Essex for a slippery character after he turned up at the Mayhew Animal Home in Kensal Green.

A Royal Python snake was brought to the charity in Trenmar Gardens, by two men who spotted it trying to climb over a wall in Holland Park.

The pair managed to scoop him up and place him in a cat basket before handing him over to the Mayhew.

After a night’s sleep at the home Sam Davis Bernard, who has been named after the two men, slithered off to the Dangerous Wild Animal Rescue Facility in Essex.

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