Pet python kills owner

A LOVER of exotic animals was found dead in his bedroom after his 2.5m pet python choked him, an inquest has heard.

Dan Brandon, 31, was asphyxiated when the African rock python, which he treated as his “baby”, coiled around him in a “show of affection”.

He is thought to be the first person in Britain to be killed by a python. Mr Brandon had 10 snakes and 12 tarantulas in his Church Crookham bedroom.