Sam Hayward and the "mouse" (Image: SWNS/Sam Hayward)

       A disgusted takeaway customer was left horrified after allegedly finding a “twitching mouse" in his Chinese takeaway - but the restaurant denies it was their food.

       Sam Hayward had started eating his dinner when he said he spotted something moving in his mushroom noodle soup.

       The shocked 39-year-old started filming the apparent rodent and rang the restaurant his girlfriend Emily had ordered the takeaway from.

       Mr Hayward, from Kent, said: “My missus rang me up asking if I wanted anything to eat and I said I fancied a jacket potato.

       “She said she wanted a Chinese, so she won that one.

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       The "mouse" in the mushroom soup (Image: SWNS/Sam Haywood )

       “I started eating and got about three-quarters to halfway through it and then thought, 'That's a big mushroom, isn't it?'.

       “It was twitching. I'm no animal expert, but it couldn't have been alive. The tail was the first thing I saw and it just freaked me out.

       Mr Hayward said he spent around 25 minutes in the toilet afterwards trying to make himself sick as a result and claimed that while he had a “pretty strong stomach” this was “another level”.

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       Sam Hayward said he had been a customer for almost 20 years (Image: Sam Haywood/SWNS )

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       He said Emily had paid for the meal with cash and they had not got a receipt for the takeaway.

       He also claimed the Chinese restaurant, which he did not identify but that he had been a regular customer with for almost 20 years, had denied it was their food.

       Mr Hayward added: “All I wanted was for them to apologise - it's just the principle.

       “I didn't want them to say, 'Sam, you have free Chinese food for life'... I wouldn't have wanted it.”

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