Laindon: Police probe Curly Wurly bar razor blade report

Libby, 14, cut her lip on a blade when she bit into the chocolate bar, said her family

Police are investigating after a family said their teenage daughter cut her lip on a blade placed inside a Curly Wurly bar she received by trick or treating.

David Buisson said his daughter Libby, 14, obtained the chocolate bar near her home in Laindon, Essex, on Halloween on Monday.

He said she was "quite disturbed by it all, quite frightened".

Essex Police said: "We are now investigating the circumstances around the report."

The force has called for anyone with information to come forward.

'Disturbing'

Mr Buisson told the BBC they did not know how the blade got into the Cadbury bar or where it had come from.

He said his daughter visited quite a few houses in her area for the traditional Halloween outing and only opened the bar when she got home.

"She was quite disturbed by it all, quite frightened," he said.

"Obviously she didn't know if it was a razor blade at first. She felt something sharp and she was quite shaken up.

"When we've looked at the Curly Wurly packet, it looks like it's been tampered with at the bottom and then resealed.

"She can't actually remember which particular house it was from... [but] it's even worse that it was someone nearby."

He added that it was "quite frightening to think what could have actually happened".

"As it happened she only cut her bottom lip but... it's quite disturbing that it could have been so much worse.

"It now makes me think that next year on Halloween, is it really worth sending her out?"

A spokesman for Mondelez International, which owns Cadbury, said it had been "deeply concerned" to hear about the incident.

"We've offered our full assistance to the Essex Police department to establish if there is any information we can provide to support their investigations," a statement said.