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RSPCA investigates after python found cut in half in Oxfordshire

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The RSPCA said it appeared the snake had been killed deliberately (stock image)

The RSPCA is investigating after the severed body of a royal python was found by the side of the road.

The reptile was spotted last Thursday in grass by the Cuxham Road-Willow Close roundabout in Watlington, Oxfordshire.

RSPCA inspector Simon Hoggett said it appeared the 3ft-long snake had been killed "as a result of an act of deliberate cruelty".

It had been cut into two pieces and decapitated, he said.

"It appears to have been caused by a blunt cut," the inspector added.

He appealed for anyone with information or who knows someone who owned a snake matching its description to contact the charity.

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