A fashion designer who has dressed Holly Willoughby and Myleene Klass was brutally attacked by a stag in Richmond Park last week.

Yuan Li, 43 from Leytonstone sustained a total of six puncture wounds when she was charged at by a male deer she described as having "huge" antlers last Friday.

She sustained a number of serious injuries including a major puncture wound to the thigh, which needed stitching by a plastic surgeon.

The incident has sparked warnings from experts, who are reminding the public to stay at least 50m from wild deer at all times.

It comes as the UK's deer population has doubled to 1.5 million over the past decade and is the largest it has been in 1000 years. Such rapid growth is the result of deer no longer being categorized as vermin and a lack of natural predators.