The British ex-pat discovered a nasty surprise in her outdoor tree on Thursday, when she came home from work to find a three-metre (10-foot) python coiled around the potted evergreen.

A four-metre-long python coiled around a 64-year-old woman in Thailand for two hours in her home before help arrived. The snake bit her multiple times and wrapped itself around her, squeezing ...

Mother-of-two Arrom said she panicked and tried to yank the python’s head away from her. However, she fell over, which allowed the 45lbs beast to wrap itself tightly around her torso.