Builder left terrified when he saw ‘crocodile’ heading towards him in Thames

A BUILDER’S blood ran cold when he feared a crocodile was heading towards him in the Thames.

Paul Robbins, 60, was constructing a balcony three feet from the water when he thought he clocked its menacingly still head.

He told The Sun: “I was about 20 yards away and I saw this thing coming towards me and immediately thought, ‘That’s a crocodile’.

"For about 15 seconds I was convinced it was a croc.”

Paul, from Windsor, then mentally plotted a snappy escape route from the knobbly monster.

He said: “I was on the first floor so I thought it probably wouldn’t have been able to get up the stairs.

"It could easily have got out on to the bank and gone under the house to wait though.”

Crocodiles are usually found in tropical waters rather than posh Henley-on-Thames in Oxfordshire.

While Paul’s reptilian sighting was probably driftwood, lost creatures have ended up in the Thames.

A bottlenose whale nicknamed Willy swam up there in 2006.