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The gruesome story of a beheaded stag whose carcass was left dressed in a T-shirt has left a community baffled and sickened.

Lying at the edge of a field was the body of a fallow deer - its head missing and its carcass fitted with a bloodied white T-shirt.

Commoners living in Burley in the New Forest had spotted the antlered animal roaming around farmland in the past few months.

But this week its mutilated body was found, a knife used to cut through its neck and human clothing stretched over the carcass in a macabre act.

Rumours were rife of links to witchcraft, as Burley is known to have historical connections with the occult.
A spokesman said: "There is nothing to suggest that there is any link with witchcraft and to do so would be wild speculation.

"It is unusual in so far as the head has been removed and someone has put a T-shirt on its torso.