🚨 Share far and wide to help identify this person 🚨 A holidaymaker has been accused of grabbing a seagull out of the air then punching it to death after it snatched his pasty. Outraged locals posted pictures of the man claiming he killed the innocent seagull in St Ives, Cornwall yesterday in revenge for trying to steal his savoury treat, as police urged anybody with CCTV footage to come forward. Rosie Reynolds was working at a boat tour stall when the man attacked the bird right in front of her. She said: 'He was walking with his wife and child and the gull just swooped down and stole his pasty. 'He just grabbed it and had its head in his hand and punched it hard in the chest. It was sort of held in his arm so it couldn't escape. 'After three or four punches the bird went limp then he threw it to the ground where it just lay there, it was still alive but its chest cavity was caved in and I think it just went off to die. 'I went over and berated him as did some other people, I said "you can't do that, its illegal" and his wife said the same, I think she was shocked, I asked if he'd do the same to a child who stole an ice cream but he just called me a cow and told me to f*** off. I'm just so shocked, tourists sometimes kick out at the seagulls but this is the worst I've ever seen. 'I recognised his picture straight away on Facebook, I know several people have reported him to police and I hope they can deal with him properly.' A takeaway owner who didn’t want to be named served the man just before he attacked the gull said it actually snatched a fish burger. He said: 'I just remember the guy was really rude, his wife seemed lovely but he was just demanding and said he needed to drive back to Yorkshire as soon as he could.' Another witness Pauly Ford posted on Facebook: 'Just witnessed a 'man' grab a seagull that had knocked the pasty out of his hand and punched the bird twice really, really hard. This was at the harbour. 'The bird wasn't able to fly away and a lady at the sea island boat trips picked it up to look after, sadly the bird had a big hole in its chest so will likely not survive.