Witness noticed ‘massive cat’ whereas staying at Wakefield cafe and motel Redbeck which may very well be set for demolition

A developer desires to knock down the Redbeck Motel in Crofton to make means for the brand new properties.

Forty individuals have already objected to the plan for the reason that software appeared on-line on Tuesday (Jan 30).

But in 2016 Royal Mail employee Phil Chapman could not imagine his eyes when he noticed this cat like creature roaming whereas staying on the motel.

Mr Chapman, then 48, captured the animal, believed to be a giant cat, on digicam, because it was prowling by means of close by fields.

He stated it emerged from the bushes at round 8pm

Mr Chapman, from North Yorkshire, stated: “I was on the phone to a friend looking out of the window at the fields, watching the rabbits, and this big cat just came through the hedgerow.

“It was just casually walking across the field.

“It’s clearly not a domestic cat.”

He added: “Whereas normally these things are a case of blink and it’s gone, this was in no rush to get across the field.”

Mr Chapman stated the animal seemed just like a a panther.

It just isn’t the primary time a “big cat” has been noticed within the district.

There have been a number of reported sightings of the ‘Beast Oo Ossett’, which hit nationwide headlines in 2000.

Observers likened it to a giant black Irish wolfhound.

Three years later there was a report of a big black cat stalking the village of Wintersett.

There had been additionally sightings of a panther or puma-like beast roaming between Alverthorpe and Ossett in 2006.

More not too long ago, in November 2022, Jeff Johnson, from Normanton, was heading out for a run, driving close to Heath Common when he filmed what seemed to be a giant cat.

It started a string of latest and historic stories of massive cat sightings within the Wakefield district and throughout West Yorkshire.

Locations included Flanshaw, Welbeck landfill website, Middleton Woods in south Leeds and Littletown FC in Cleckheaton.