“Boa constrictors are not venomous but in the wild they kill animals by squeezing ... “It’s 100 per cent a royal python,” he told The Telegraph after seeing a picture of the snake.

Royal pythons originate from the grasslands of West Africa and use constriction rather than venom to kill their prey. They can grow up to a length of 1.5 metres (almost 5ft). They are known to ...

Volunteers from Knaresborough Exotic Rescue were called to the property by a woman whose partner had left the royal pythons behind when they broke up. Daniel Holmes, from the reptile sanctuary ...