Schoolboy reels in deadly 3lb piranha in Cheshire

When keen young angler Josh Boyle felt a pull on his rod, he was expecting the usual roach or rudd.

The 14 year old schoolboy had been fishing since the age of two and regularly visited a local beauty spot near his home in Stockport, Greater Manchester.



But Josh was not prepared for what he found on the end of his fishing rod - a 3Ib red bellied South American piranha.

Experts say it was most likely to have been put into the pond at local beauty spot Reddish Vale, in Stockport, by a previous owner.