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# Killer Panther On the Loose In Sydenham*
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2005/03/killer_panther/
- Published: 2005-03-22T17:06:01.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T09:07:26.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: headlines, lewisham, mythical creatures

[BBC NEWS | England | London | ‘Big cat’ attacks man in garden](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4370893.stm?ref=onemanandhisblog.com "BBC NEWS | England | London | 'Big cat' attacks man in garden"):

> Mr Holder was looking for his kitten at the bottom of his garden, which backs onto woodland, when the powerful creature attacked him.
> 
> He described how a ‘big black figure pounced’ and he was ‘in its claws for about 30 seconds’.
> 
> ‘Its teeth were out and I tried to defend myself and eventually I got the thing off my body.’
> 
> He was scratched all over his body and suffered swelling and bruising to his hand and the back of his head.

\* *This headline brought to you by the “not very accurate but really quite sensational” school of headline-writing*