A mum was in disbelief after coming outside to find a deer eating her garden lawn.
Louise Cunningham was about to leave her home in Sutton, St Helens, to go to work this morning when she found the deer in her front garden. The 47-year-old care assistance wasn't the only person to spot the deer roaming around the area including on Monastery Road.
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Louise told the ECHO: "I just opened my front door and it was there on my lawn eating grass. It then ran off, I got in my car to go to work, then I saw it again at the end of the street and it stopped and looked at me again before running across the bridge towards the old monastery. I was really shocked but [it was] lovely to see it."
Louise shared what happened in a community group on Facebook in the hope other people may know what kind of deer it was and where it had come from. One woman said the deer came running past her house this morning and she believes it's a Roe deer.
Roe deer have previously been pictured in the woodland of Sutton Manor in St Helens.
Replying to Louise's post, one man said: "It’s always there in the bushes next to the bridge. Scared the life out of me first time I saw it popping it’s head out of the railings."
Another man added: "They currently live and roam near the Dream [sculpture], this young one must have got lost."
Merseyside Police confirmed they received a report of a deer being sighted by the canal near Blackbrook Road in St Helens at around 7.40am this morning and no further action was taken.
