A SLIPPERY character spotted on the streets of Bradford has been caught on camera.

Suhail Mahmood was at a family gathering when he a saw a snake on the loose in Girlington.

The orange and brown reptile slithered its way along a pathway between Dalton Terrace and Hollings Terrace towards Walker Drive at around 7pm.

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"I was shocked when I saw it and really scared,” said Mr Mahmood, of Dickens Street, West Bowling.

"I had to film it as people might have thought I was making it up otherwise.

"It looked a couple of metres long,” the 27-year-old added.

One reader contacted the Telegraph & Argus and said the reptile could be a rainbow boa - which tend to favour tropical conditions, so would be right at home today - but several other people believe it is a corn snake.

And a further call to us confirmed its breed and said it escaped three weeks ago from Prism City Farm in Girlington.

The farm’s manager Katie Corfield said: "It is definitely him.

"He is a little escape artist, but he does not usually go out of his animal house at the farm.”

The seven-year-old snake, Draco, often goes missing during breeding season and his owners have been searching the farm, in Walker Driver, to try and find him.

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