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Then, on 28 October, Ms Hoskins states she "came into contact with chocolate which had been placed in a staff-only storage cupboard and suffered a life-threatening anaphylactic shock".

Ms Dolan said: "How many people have just got stuff sat at the back of their cupboards? Rather than it going to waste, it might as well help someone who needs some food."

The court heard she had initially hidden his body in a cupboard in her bedroom, before wrapping it in bin bags and moving it to the bottom of the garden.

Global Radio took the authority to court over the noise which it said forced some staff to work in cupboards.

The family went for a look, but the otter then dashed inside and proceeded to knock things off shelves, and even went inside a wall-mounted kitchen cupboard.