A 'terrified' teenager has claimed she found a decomposing bat in a Rice Krispies box, putting her off the cereal for life.

Sehr Rafique, 17, told the Daily Record how she was freaked out when she discovered the dead winged creature as she poured out her cereal into a tupperware box.

“I screamed the house down when I saw the bat,” explained the Glasgow teenager, who is starting university later this year.

“I am scared of spiders as it is, so this terrified me. I have never seen a bat up close, never mind one which I almost ate.”