Colchester: Fresh ‘beast’ sighting (From Gazette)

Colchester: Fresh ‘beast’ sighting

8:41am Friday 28th March 2008 in Beast of Essex By Lauren Oldershaw

Another sighting has been made of the elusive so-called beast of Essex.

Alison Wilcox, of Ambrose Avenue in Colchester, said she was on her way back from Hadleigh with her husband when she spotted the panther-like animal standing in a field between Lawford and Colchester in the middle of the day.

"It was definitely not a horse - it was black animal, and I am certain it was this beast everyone keeps talking about.

"It was just standing there, and then I saw in the paper that someone else had heard it growling," added Mrs Wilcox.

The creature has also recently been sighted in Harwich, Colne Engaine and Colchester.