Shape of meow! Big cat sighting near Ed Sheeran’s £3.7m country estate sparks loose ‘panther’ fears

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Shape of meow! Big cat sighting near Ed Sheeran’s £3.7m country estate sparks loose ‘panther’ fears

Matt Salusbury, who runs the Big Cats of Suffolk website said: ‘The witness told me they’d seen a large black animal walking up and down along the

Jonathan Downes

Cryptozoologist, naturalist, musician, singer, composer, poet, novelist and Director of the Centre for Fortean Zoology since 1992. Jon was born in Portsmouth in 1959 and spent his infancy in Nigeria and his childhood in Hong Kong. His wife Corinna died of cancer in 2020, leaving him with two stepdaughters and a six year old granddaughter called Evelyn.