Father of the Year candidate

Police in China are hunting a motorcyclist who was spotted pulling his toddler son behind him - in a drinks crate.

The tot - clearly too young to ride pillion - stares out from the box trustingly as he is towed along the road by a piece of rope.

The scene was photographed by a passer-by in Xi'an, Shaanxi province.

He said: "When I first saw this bike coming down the road I thought he had a dog or something in the box and I thought, 'How cruel'. But when it got closer I could see it was a boy, no older than two and I was horrified."