Jason Carpenter found what he calls a "vigilante" python that is going around killing cane toads for the fun of it. Picture: Jason Carpenter Source: Supplied

The environmental vigilante – dubbed The Gardens Strangler – has killed at least three toads in two days.

Jason Carpenter said he caught the snake in the act of cold blooded amphibian strangulation.

“When I first looked I had a thought that someone had got a cane toad and put on some Christmas decorations,” he said.

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“Then I realised it was a cane toad with a python wrapped round it. It was a negative outcome for the toad.

“If he could only get his mates and train them up.” Mr Carpenter said the snake, who he named “The Assassinator”, worked over two toads the next day – upsizing his kills in the Casino car park where he leaves the bloated carcasses for anyone to stumble across.

The rogue enforcer, who doesn’t bother trying to eat the toads, appears to be the John Elferink of reptiles.

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The NT Attorney General has been known to make citizens’ arrests, apprehending alleged perps and holding – or sitting on – them until conventional authorities arrive.

The snake could also be dubbed “Minister Max” – a fitting tribute to former Territory infrastructure minister Max Ortmann who began to strangle an ABC 7.30 Report journalist with his own microphone cord in 1993.