Terrified Mother Wakes up to Neighbour's 4FT SNAKE Sinking its Fangs into her Breast

A mother-of-four said she thought she was going to die after a large snake crawled into her bed while she slept and bit her on the breast.

DailyRecord reports that Caroline Griffin, 49, who had no idea if the four foot snake was poisonous, said she woke up after feeling an unusual movement beneath her sheets. Throwing back the duvet, Ms Griffin saw the large snake resting on her chest. At first she thought her kids were playing some sort of trick on her, then she saw the snake move and she got the fright of her life.

As soon as she started screaming, the snake sank its fangs into her breast chest leaving bruising and puncture marks. Caroline said she thought she was going to die. But thankfully, the creature was a harmless brown belly California kingsnake which had escaped from a neighbour's home six months earlier.

News of her been bitten spread along her street and a short time later the snake's owner Gareth Niven, 21, arrived at her front door to collect it. Mr Niven said the snake, which he calls Hiss, had escaped from his tank six months earlier and is likely to have been living in a derelict house that separates his and Ms Griffin's properties.

Despite there being no risk to Ms Griffin as a result of the bite, kingsnakes are constrictors and the reptile may have killed her had it wrapped itself around her neck.