ARTICLE: The time a leopard escaped on a busy Plymouth street, and it didn't end well

Regular readers may have seen our recent story on the late lamented Plymouth Zoo in Central Park.


Fellow local historian Gerald Barker wrote to The Herald regarding an incident involving one of the big cats from the zoo many years ago.

He wrote to the Police Headquarters for information and some time later he received a call from Edgar Horton, a former police sergeant who was on duty one fateful day in Plymouth in the mid-1970s.


He said: "I was on early shift, 6am-2pm, when I received a phone call from one of the zoo keepers telling me that a leopard had escaped from its cage.

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