Police were last night investigating reports a bag of bones had been found at a Bradford allotment site.

Officers were called at 5.40pm to the site, off Fairbank Road, Girlington, where a pitch-holder found the bag as he dug up the land.

Police said last night they suspected the bones were those of an animal but were waiting for them to be examined by experts.

Inzar Ahmed, who found the bag, which he described as being like transparent sheeting, said: “It looked like joints, like an elbow or a rib cage. It was a big shock. The way they have been cut you can tell someone’s chopped them.”

Mr Ahmed, who co-owns the allotment with friend Mohammed Bilal, said the site was overgrown when he took it on and he had only begun working on it in the last fortnight.

He added: “From what we saw we know it’s not cat bones, it’s too big for that. With these bones it could be something else.”