A pair had been horrified after their two-year-old daughter discovered a small knife inside a Peppa Pig field whereas unwrapping her presents on Christmas morning.
Martin Sexton, 36, rushed to seize the rusty retractable knife out of his daughter Maggie’s palms at their residence in Brackley, Northamptonshire.
Mr Sexton, 36, and fiancée Kelly Francis, 31, mentioned they spent a lot of Christmas Day making an attempt to contact the seller who offered them the toy after the shock discovery and have since been promised an investigation.
‘It might have been horrific,’ mentioned Mr Sexton. ‘As each our kids are autistic, we’ve got to be significantly vigilant when opening bins that comprise plastic ties. Mother and father with extra developed kids may need simply allow them to get on with opening their very own presents.’
Two-year-old Maggie Sexton of Brackley, Northamptonshire, got here throughout the retractable knife inside her Peppa Pig toy which she opened on Christmas morning
Maggie’s mother and father Martin Sexton, 36, and Kelly Francis, 31, mentioned they spent a lot of Christmas day making an attempt to contact the seller who offered them the toy after the shock discovery and have since been promised an investigation
Mr Sexton and Miss Francis had been trying ahead to spending Christmas at residence with their kids, Archie, three, and Maggie, two. They’d begun unwrapping an enormous pile of presents that included a yellow Peppa Pig campervan for Maggie.
‘We had been preserving a detailed eye on the youngsters,’ mentioned Mr Sexton, a poultry welfare officer. ‘However when one thing fell out from a void within the cardboard packaging, initially I believed it was only a plastic part.
‘As Maggie reached for it, I noticed it was a blue knife. The blade was rusty and the retractable blade did not have a security catch, so it might simply slide out and in.
‘I managed to seize it simply earlier than Maggie did. It was simply as effectively I did, because it’s fairly probably Maggie would have put it in her mouth.
‘Kelly was completely livid. Had Maggie put it in her mouth it’s totally probably we might have had the Military speeding her to hospital in an ambulance.’
Mr Sexton mentioned: ‘I managed to seize the knife simply earlier than Maggie did. It was simply as effectively I did, because it’s fairly probably Maggie would have put it in her mouth’ (Pictured: The knife in Maggie’s hand)
Sharing photographs of the knife on Fb, Miss Francis mentioned the incident had left her ‘completely fuming’.
She wrote: ‘So fortunate and grateful Martin opened it along with her and located it first!’
After re-checking their receipts, the couple confirmed that they had ordered the reward from Studio, a web based retailer that is owned by the Studio Retail Group. The corporate was acquired for £1 by billionaire Mike Ashley’s Frasers Group in February 2022.
Unable to talk to anybody on Christmas Day, they tried once more on Boxing Day and had been put by to the complaints division.
‘They had been fairly shocked,’ mentioned Mr Sexton. ‘They handed on the criticism to the investigations crew, saying they should know the way this occurred.’
The picket Peppa Pig campervan was manufactured in China and Mr Sexton suspects the blue Martor knife was accidently misplaced when the merchandise was being packaged. ‘Some man in China might be nonetheless trying round for his knife,’ he mentioned.
The knife was discovered inside this field of Peppa Pig’s Tenting Journey, which was packaged in China
‘There was a void within the backside of the field the place the plastic bindings had been tied. Somebody in all probability put the knife down for a second and forgot about it when trimming the ties. When trying on the product in its completed packaging, the knife wasn’t seen in any respect.’
The mother and father mentioned they had been shaken over the incident however decided that it would not spoil Christmas for his or her younger kids, who they fastidiously watched over as they continued to open their presents.
‘It has been sluggish going,’ mentioned Mr Sexton. ‘We’re cautious anyway however now we’re being much more meticulous to ensure there are not any extra undesirable surprises.
‘We now have performed by the varied horrible what-if-we-hadn’t-seen-it-when-we-did eventualities. What if our different baby had picked it up?
‘What if the soiled work blade had reduce somebody, significantly with so many emergency companies at present on strike? However the prevailing feeling is a way of aid that no person acquired harm.’
Digital retailer Studio was approached for a remark.
