Student’s horror after finding highly venomous scorpion in her suitcase


Megan Royle had returned to her home in Gillingham, Kent, after flying back from her mother’s wedding when she discovered the olive thick tail scorpion.
The 20-year-old said: “I was rushing to unpack as I was going out to meet friends then this tiny scorpion hopped out of the suitcase and scuttled across the bed.
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Hide Ad“I didn’t clock straight away what it was. I thought to myself: ‘That can’t be a scorpion’.”


Ms Royle said she called her mother for advice, and added: “Mum told me not to worry, it’s only the little ones that are dangerous - and this one was tiny so then I was freaking out even more.”
Ms Royle said she then contacted the RSPCA which collected the scorpion and identified it as a species that requires a Dangerous Wild Animal licence to be kept in the UK.
Animal collection officer Brian Milligan went to collect the scorpion. He said: “The scorpion was small and sandy-coloured. It seemed to be well so I took it straight to our specialist exotics centre in Brighton.”