Ann Mathers, 88, called police after making the grim discovery – which saw several femurs and jaw bones scattered in her flowerbeds. The grandmother, who has lived in her end terrace house in Dudley, West Midlands, for more than 60 years, was said to be “scared to death” by the grave-robbing critters.
She first found the skull last July and called police who initially sealed her home off as a potential crime scene, WalesOnline reports.
Officers then discovered the culprit was a colony of badgers dragging the remains into her garden from a nearby cemetery. It emerged the animals were getting access to the graveyard via a public footpath running between the cemetery and Ann’s house.
Her family have appealed to Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council for help but they can only relocate the badgers when this year’s breeding season is over.
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