Scottish coppers spot puma in Edingurgh

**Earl** · 08-04-2012, 12:16

Police helicopter crew have been telling the Scottish Sun how they spotted a puma running around Edinburgh!

POLICE teams searching for a vulnerable mum were stunned when they spotted a BIG CAT.

The unit had been drafted in by cops in Edinburgh after a two-day-old baby was found abandoned in the street.

Officers were desperate to find the tot’s mother, and Sgt Nicholas Whyte’s helicopter team was asked to check out Arthur’s Seat with infra-red camera gear.

He said: “We started our search and found a large heat source lying on the ground.
“I directed a police woman towards it, and as I was doing this the heat source got up and it was a large cat.

“It was not your standard domestic cat or small moggy but more like a puma.

“We told the officer to stay exactly where she was and the cat bounded off, never to be seen again. It was one of the most astonishing things I have ever seen on our cameras.”