Woman shocked to find grenade in house clearance

A woman who discovered a hand grenade while clearing a house said she was shocked as the place had been full of oxygen canisters.

Santana Huckle found a grenade in the property in Watton, which had been left to her young son by his late father.

Norfolk Police was called to the house in Jubilee Road on 29 December, after it was told about an "unexploded ordnance device" and neighbouring homes were evacuated.

Officers said Army bomb disposal experts seized the item and Huckle said it had been detonated safely.

Huckle, 37, found the grenade in a mahogany chest of drawers about a metre from the bed where her ex-partner Jack Morris had slept before his death on 2 December.

She said children often stayed there and she had no idea the device was there but added that Morris was "always full of surprises".

"I was quite shocked. I was worried because so many people had been in the house," she said.

"It started to bother me how much he'd put everyone in danger having this grenade in the house... whether or not he had forgotten about it.

"I wish he'd have told me so that we could have got rid of it while he was alive."

She called 999 as soon as she discovered the device, before leaving the house with her children.

Earlier in December, an Army team detonated a device found in a shed in Hellesdon, near Norwich.

The police advise that should anyone find a suspected unexploded device they should not touch, move, or disturb it.

Clear the area and move away immediately before calling 999.

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