Kangaroo goes on the loose in Gloucestershire

They cornered the creature, which was later identified as a wallaby. near Woodmancote but it managed to evade them.

Police, who covered the freakish chase in a series of tongue-in-cheek Facebook postings, have warned the public not to approach the “strong and powerful” animal.

If there are further sightings of the animal, or if anyone has any knowledge about where this animal has escaped from, please call 101 quoting incident number 462 of 26 September 2015.

We’re guessing this one won’t be too exciting for Australian readers, but in Britain it’s not every day the police have to track down an escaped wallaby.

The cops later joked: “Not the usual bouncers that we’re interacting with on a Saturday night”.

At midnight officers the kangaroo was still at large.

The animal was spotted in the Dursley area on Saturday night and Gloucestershire Police is appealing for its owner to come forward.

Rich Gillingham, whose garden was searched for the kangaroo, said: ‘That was one of the most freaky evenings of my life.

Prankster pupils released three wallabies on the night of the student ball just four days after they arrived from a zoo, but the school has denied the marsupial is theirs.

It managed to jump a wall and ran into woodland before they cornered it in someone’s Woodmancote back garden near Dursley.

But a local farm in Gloucestershire has agreed to take the roo if it’s finally found.

Soon after, officers put out a second “kangaroo update” as Skippy hopped towards another wooded area.

Inchconnachan island in Scotland’s Loch Lomond also has its own population that was introduced in the 1920s.