Somebody, please help! Terrified teen found hungry 3ft python in her bath

A teenager was overcome with terror after discovering a python in her bath – which had been slithering around under the floorboards for months.

Trudi Evans, 45, was at work when she got a panicked phone call from her daughter Natasha, 17, who had found a 3ft snake in the bath tub.

The family, from Hebburn, Tyne and Wear, have since discovered the Royal Python belonged to a previous neighbour – who said it had escaped in July.

Trudi, a garage worker, said: ‘I got a phone call from Natasha saying there was a snake in the bath, and of course I didn’t believe her, or I thought if anything it was a little grass snake or a worm.

‘She sounded really scared so I thought I had no choice but to leave work and go home. I think my boss thought I’d made up some kind of ridiculous lie to get out of work.

‘When I got there, I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. There was a huge snake as long as my arm in the bath.

‘Tasha said she had gone in the bathroom and without really looking leant down to put the plug in the bath and saw the snake out of the corner of her eye and ran out of the bathroom.

‘She wasn’t sure if she’d actually seen it or imagined it, so she opened the door and looked back in and there it was.’

Trudi was even more shocked to discover their former neighbours, who bred snakes, had been missing the snake for months.

She added: ‘The family who used to live next door bred snakes and Tasha went on Facebook to message them and ask if they were missing a snake.

‘They said it had been missing since they moved house in July and just thought it was dead so didn’t look for it.

‘So this snake has been living in the empty house next door since July and must have got under the floorboards and worked its way over to our house. It’s terrifying.