Outrage over terrapin taped to firework

The person who taped a terrapin to a bonfire night rocket and launched it into the sky was condemned as "sick" by the RSPCA.

The traumatised creature was discovered with a cracked shell and bleeding from its mouth in a garden in Rutland Road, Wrexham, north Wales.



It is thought the terrapin survived the night attached to the spent firework with white masking tape.

It then underwent a second ordeal when a dog picked up the firework in its mouth and carried it in to its owner.

The RSPCA have vowed to hunt down and prosecute the person responsible and have claimed there was an "obvious" connection with a Virgin Media Broadband advert of a cartoon tortoise being launched into space, which they have requested be withdrawn.