Jeffy is a puppet star of a series of hit YouTube videos that have been watched tens of millions of times. They show him as a foul-mouthed, ill-behaved teenager who torments his father, who is ...

3 A mum has blamed YouTube video starring puppet Jeffy after finding a makeshift noose around her seven-year-old son’s neck Credit: youtube/supermariologan ...

The youngster wrapped material from the Teesside family’s Christmas tree around his neck - claiming he was inspired by a foul-mouthed puppet named ‘Jeffy’.

The youngster, from Teesside, wrapped Christmas decorations around his neck, claiming he was inspired by the antics of the comedy puppet Jeffy, the Teesside Gazette reports.