Man Who Dumped Decapitated Deer Head In Tesco Freed

On August 31, 2013 by Tim Newman

Some of you with good memories for weird news may remember the mysterious incident of the decapitated deer head that was left at a Tesco checkout. The story was set in Saffron Walden and at the time caused a bit of a stir. There was a deer head left on the check out and guts liberally spread about in the bread isle.

The mystery has now been solved. It was a chap called James Hyett, he had been sacked by the store and was apparently going through a bit of a breakdown at the time and has pleaded guilty and apologised for the incident.

His lawyer said it was very out of character and he was going though a difficult time. He received a suspended sentence and a bill for 250 smackers for the clean up.

I’m glad this has all been explained, it was one of those stories I thought we would never get to the bottom of. I still have a question though:

Where did he get all the dead deer paraphernalia from? They don’t sell intestines in Tesco? At least not packaged as such?