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Harry and his mum Louise with the offending wasp. Deadlinepix MJ13629-2.

Five-year-old Harry Charlton says he never wants to go back to Bushy Park again after a wasp crawled inside his ear and stung him on a family day out.

Harry’s ordeal began when he wandered away from his parents and two older brothers while they were visiting the Woodland Gardens in Bushy Park shortly before 11.30am on Sunday.

He crossed a shallow stream and was suddenly surrounded by a swarm of wasps.

His dad John went to fetch him but as he got closer Harry started screaming.

He was standing frozen in terror, with wasps covering his head and body.

He crossed the small stream, grabbed Harry and brushed the wasps off him. Both John and Harry were stung several times.

But it was only as they made their way back to the car park that Harry started weeping, saying a wasp was buzzing in his ear.

John and his wife Louise assumed he was still in shock as they could see no wasps on him.

But as Harry became increasingly distressed on the journey back home to Kingston and kept repeating there was a wasp in his ear, they started to fear the worst.

Mr Charlton said: “We realised there was something buzzing around in his ear and it frightened the life out of us.

“He was in great pain and discomfort. The wasp was stinging him inside his ear.” Harry was taken to Kingston Hospital where doctors were initially baffled as to how to remove the wasp, lodged deep inside his left ear.

They drowned the wasp by pouring olive oil in his ear and then started the delicate process of removing it using a set of long tweezers.

Harry was given medication to ease the pain. Four hours later, and after several attempts, the wasp – which was an inch long – was pulled from his ear.

John said: “The wasp was dead. Harry jumped on it just to make sure.

“He says he never wants to go to Bushy Park ever again.

“I don’t know if he disturbed a wasps’ nest but they seemed to be spread over a wide area of this garden.” Harry was back at Alexandra Infant School in Kingston on Monday and has been given medication to ensure he doesn’t develop an infection in his ear.

11:27am Friday 17th October 2003

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