POLICE have issued advice to parents after concerns were raised about sweets given to children in Swindon on Halloween.

Posts on social media have appeared which suggest that some chocolates given to costumed trick-or-treaters on Monday evening had not been properly wrapped and had holes in them.

Concerned family members feared the candy may have been tampered with and is not safe for their little ones to eat.

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The police received reports about the suspicious sweets and have now given advice about the situation.

A Wiltshire Police spokesman said: "We are aware of a number of posts on social media regarding concerns relating to sweets given out to children ‘trick or treating’ in the Walcot area last night.

"We have received two calls in relation to this and we do not believe the sweets have been contaminated on either occasion.

"We are advising parents who are concerned about any sweets collected by children this Halloween, to please discard them immediately."

Victoria Ann Munday, who lives in Walcot, revealed that she found a strange-looking strawberry rose Quality Street among his trick or treating stash, after he went out in the Walcot area on Monday night.

She told the Adver: “My son had been trick or treating in Walcot and he had some Quality Street sweets in his bag when he got home.

“The wrappers looked like they have been tampered with as they had holes in the sweets.

“It’s disgusting that there are people out there who can do this to kids, it’s just sick.

“Thankfully my son didn’t eat them, he’s only five. But if he had eaten them, it would have been a completely different story.”

She is now urging other parents to check their children's sweets.

In a post on Facebook, she said two sweets were "not wrapped properly and both have holes in them".

"Please also check your kids' sweets," she added.