This crafty fox was caught trying to drag a severed head from a South Croydon garden.

The head belongs to Croydon playwright David Trotter of Birdhurst Avenue, who is using the prop that is modelled on himself, in new play The Bloody Bride.

The 33-year-old, who is a member of Exit Theatre Company, left the head in his garden to give it a 'weathered look' in preparation for the play, in which a partially eaten human head is discovered in the woods.

He said: "When I first saw the prop it looked to clean, so on Sunday night I decided to leave it in the garden for a few days so it could become more weathered looking.

"At around 9pm I spotted this fox dragging the head by the neck across the garden.

"The head was designed based on me which is creepy enough, but seeing a fox with its mouth around 'my' neck was a bit spooky."

The Bloody Bride is a murder mystery loaded with adult, un-politically correct humour. The show opens at the Charles Cryer Studio Theatre in Carshalton on April 17.