A radio DJ was left shocked when a caller told him that she had once eaten a human being.

Graham Mack had asked listeners of the Breakfast Show on Teesside-based station TFM to name the strangest things they had ever eaten.

One caller, known only as Anthea, answered: "I've eaten a human being."

She explained: "It was when I was a child when I lived in Africa. We always went to the same butcher and then suddenly - we were there a couple of years - the meat started to get so much better.

"It was only when we moved back to England a couple of years later that we realised that the butcher had been arrested because he farmed little black girls.

"We didn't know at the time. According to my mum it was very delicious."

Show producer Matt Bailey said: "It was one of the strangest calls we have ever had. Graham was taken aback. We were all in shock really at what we were hearing."