Shoppers have been spooked by the appearance of a skeleton sat in the driver’s seat of a car.

The grinning figure was spotted in the Edinburgh Road car park in Ashford town centre and is perhaps a playful way to keep any would-be thieves at bay.

One passer by said that at first she couldn’t quite see what it was, but when she went to look closer she got an early fright before Halloween.

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