Otter steals £100,000 worth of koi carp from Chester hotel pond

A hotel has caught a "cheeky" otter stealing and eating more than £100,000 worth of koi carp from their garden pond. The Grosvenor Pulford Hotel, near Chester, set up CCTV cameras after noticing the expensive fish, worth around £2,000 each, started to go missing. Footage shared on social media shows the "gutsy guy" avoiding electric fences and plucking a carp from the water before escaping. It is thought the sly otter has stolen around 50 fish from the hotel grounds, worth a staggering £100,000. A hotel representative said: "This gutsy guy has been helping himself to the koi carp who call our grounds home, with around 30 koi plucked from the Asian Sensory Garden pond and a further 20 from our other pond - the otter cheek of it! #Otter #Koi #carpfishing