Aebi-Mytton was told by one Twitter user that the snake in question could have been a python. Jill Aebi-Mytton told ITV News: "I have a basement flat which is rented out. My tenant rang me at ...

But the sleepover turned to horror when a 13-year-old African rock python escaped from the shop and slithered through the ventilation system and into the flat where it strangled the two boys.