Freddo creator's daughter say he would be 'rolling in his grave'

The daughter of the man who invented Freddo Frog has claimed he would be 'rolling in his grave' over the current price of the chocolate treat.

Leonie Lewis's father Harry Melbourne first came up with the idea of the edible amphibian as a teenager while working for an Australian confectionary company MacRobertson's almost a decade ago.

The young Brit overheard one of his bosses talking about selling a new chocolate bar in the shape of a mouse and, unprovoked, decided to give his own thoughts.

'He said children are scared of mice, so why not a frog? Because kids go down to the lake and catch tadpoles,' Leonie told Sky News.

And just like that the cult favourite chocolate bar - which even adopted the name of Harry's 'best mate' Fred - was born.