Mum and children's shock after seeing near-nude man walking through Knowsley Safari Park

A family say they were left ‘in stitches’ after witnessing a person ‘brazenly’ stride across the Knowsley Safari Park car park - dressed only in a bright green ‘mankini’. The young family were eating their final ice creams of their Easter Bank Holiday day out when they witnessed a man walk across the car park in the skimpy one piece and black trainers.

It was mum Zoe Alexander's young daughter who first spotted the nearly-nude man at around 5pm today, April 16, she told the Manchester Evening News . "We were sat in our car in the car park, having our ice creams before leaving, and my little girl says 'what is that man wearing?' I just said 'not very much!'

"He just got out of his car as calm as you like, walked into the café, got a takeaway coffee and left on his own. "We can't stop laughing about it. My little girl and stepdaughter, who are 10 and 11, were in stitches."

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The two little girls, Grace and Izzy, were leaving Knowsley Safari Park excited to have seen a tiger for the first time. But after witnessing the Borat-style mankini, 'we spent the way home talking about this bloke', laughed mum Zoe.

"We got some decent pictures of the animals today, this one tops the lot. My stepdaughter had been saying 'we've finally seen a tiger', that's all been forgotten now, seeing this guy in his mankini.

"It was really busy at the safari park, a typical Bank Holiday Saturday afternoon with lots of kids and families - and there he is. He was just so calm and brazen, a little smile on his face, strolling across the car park."

The family has been left so baffled by the bizarre scenes that they are now on the hunt for answers. Zoe, 39, continued: “I’m trying to work out how