Police have stepped in after footage from the World Snooker Championship emerged of a spectator appearing to nibble on a boy's ear. Stephen Hendry was speaking during a break at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield on Thursday, when a man in the background leaned into a younger boy's ear and spoke, before seemingly biting him. The clip went viral online, and the tournament confirmed that it was “now a police matter”.
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Footage of the incident has been circulated on social media