Five-foot carpet python in Wandsworth's King George's Park captured by police

Pc Faye Castleman with the snake which was found by police officers in King George's Park

Gutsy police officers have captured a five-foot snake on the loose in a public park.

Metropolitan Police officers were called to King George's Park in Wandsworth, south London, on Monday night where the carpet python was found slithering along the edge of a fence.