Rare “one-in-a-million” white albino squirrel spotted around UK garden

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A rare “one-in-a-million” white albino squirrel was captured on camera scurrying around a garden in Leicestershire.

Stunned Jamie Blaylock, 15, was looking out of his bedroom window when he spotted a flash of white in his back garden.

The keen photographer grabbed his camera and fired off a few shots before the critter disappeared over a fence.

Jamie then set up his camera to film the white squirrel just in time to capture it darting through the trees by his home in Narborough.

Albinism is caused by a genetic condition that reduces melanin and affects around one in a million grey squirrels.