10-year-old Shay Greaves with the offending carving tool (Picture: Ross Parry/SWNS)

A mother was left horrified after her 10-year-old son returned form Tesco’s supermarket with a pumpkin carving kit which included a sharp serrated blade.

Natalie Greaves from Sheffield in South Yorkshire described her reaction to Shay returning home with the one pound kit: ‘I went berserk when he came home with it.

‘I couldn’t believe that he could pick that sort of thing up as a child – there should have been an age restriction on it.’

The mum-of-three checked online and found similar carving kits with restrictions allowing only people over-18 to buy it.


Similar products carry over-18 restrictions (Picture: Ross Parry/SWNS)

A Tesco spokesperson responded to this mother’s anger: ‘We follow a strict Think 25 policy.

‘We were concerned by this incident and acted immediately to ensure all pumpkin carving knives will trigger an age restriction till prompt.’