Violent cat leaves postmen running scared

When Sarah and Ben Goddard's mail delivery dried up to a trickle, the couple smelt a rat.

But Goddards would have been better pointing the finger of suspicion at their pet cat Georgi, after it emerged a succession of attacks by the vicious moggy left the postman too scared to deliver the mail.

Yesterday the couple told how they only discovered Georgi had taken to catfights after they saw the postie outside and questioned him about him their lack of letters.



He told them he would not be delivering any more mail because the tabby had left him with bleeding fingers after three attacks in a week.

The newly-weds have now paid £25 for a new post box which has been installed at the end of their drive - and have received a flood of back-dated Christmas cards which had been held for them at the sorting office.

The Goddards say 18-month-old Georgi - pictured with the scars of battle after a scrap with a local cat - is usually friendly.