Man finds SCORPION inside his suitcase as he unpacks after Cuba holiday

A holidaymaker found this fearsome SCORPION inside his suitcase after returning home from a trip to Cuba.

Stunned David Judd - who named him Brian - said he got the fright of his life when he spotted the creature scurrying around at the bottom of his case as he unpacked his clothes.

He immediately slammed the case shut before carefully managing to catch the scorpion with a pair of litter picking-style tongs and putting it into a plastic tub.

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David believes Brian is a Cuban Bark Scorpion, a type described as being capable of inflicting a painful, venomous sting, but not said to be as potent as some of its killer arachnid relatives.

"I don't think he's deadly," said David, who landed at Manchester Airport on Friday morning after a two-week holiday just outside Havana with his wife, Amanda, 48. "I have been looking them up online and, thankfully, the word 'fatal' hasn't yet cropped up, although I have seen the words 'very poisonous'.

"It's very bizarre and we have no idea how he has got inside our luggage. I have been stung twice by a bee in my life before - and that was enough."

David, a voice actor who had his leg amputated following an accident in 2014, said he began to sort through their luggage after they arrived back home in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, following the eight-hour flight to Manchester.

"We got home and I opened up the first suitcase, which was mine," he said.

"I was taking everything out manually with my hands but when I reached the bottom of the case, I saw this brown thing out of the coroner of my eye. It was making a rustling sound and I thought 'that's not normal'.

"The suitcase has a lining around the inside and it scurried