Police Scotland is investigating claims that a seal pup was killed by performers at an Arran music festival. An online storm was sparked after a spectator at the Deoch an Dorus Festival, held at North Sannox last Saturday, wrote on social media that he had witnessed a member of a band killing the creature with a brick before throwing its lifeless body around backstage.
The claims have been strenuously denied on social media by the band concerned, as the online war of words raged.
In a statement, the festival organisers said: ‘We were made aware of a suggestion that a seal had been harmed.