Stripe the bitey squirrel meets a sad end after terrorising Welsh town

Creature named after a Gremlin bit more than a dozen people in Buckley before being caught and put down

The tale of Stripe the squirrel began cheerfully enough with Corrine Reynolds, an animal lover in north Wales, feeding the creature titbits and watching its acrobatic adventures in her back garden.

But the story took a distinctly unfestive twist when Stripe - named after the sharp-toothed creature in the Christmas horror comedy Gremlins - began nipping at Reynolds and other neighbours.