An eight-year-old girl was supposed to get a keyboard for Christmas, but the gift box she received included a row of up to 15 Stanley knife blades with a taped handle.
Holly Cornwell pulled a homemade “Prison Shank” covered in blades from a Christmas present ordered on Amazon.
Beverley Cornwell bought her granddaughter Holly Cornwell a keyboard from the online giant last month and wrapped up the instrument in its original box.
But the 57-year-old alleges when the little one ripped open the packaging on Boxing Day, she pulled out a row of up to 15 Stanley knife blades with a taped handle.
Beverley, a mental health worker from Hillingdon, West London, said: “It was a makeshift knife, you could see that it had tape around to make a makeshift handle. We think it had been used for packaging purposes. Obviously an eight-year-old child is excited and wants to tear the packaging open so thank goodness she had the hindsight to hold it up and say ‘what's this?’, and thank goodness we were there to witness her unwrapping it.”
She was offered a refund by Amazon but said: “My complaint is not about monetary gain, it’s to highlight the potential of a very severe incident.”
The keyboard, sold on Amazon for £78, is made in China by UK-based company RockJam and both companies are probing the matter.
