Solved What in the name of evil is this?

I just dug up this piece of spiny spite, it's about 4-5" tall in complete shade.. it can't be a gooseberry, can it?

 

Looks like a gooseberry to me.
They do self-seed occasionally. Will it produce good fruit? I think you'll need to grow it on for a few years to tell.

 

Ha! Not a chance, I don't allow such sharp creatures any more, lol! We had inherited a big gooseberry bush, but I dug it out some years ago. Love the fruits but I can live without them.

 

Looks like a gooseberry bush to me

 

Can you provide a wider angle picture? I’d like to see what’s under it.

 

That took me a minute..

 

Thee- hee, the ghost is apparently coming back from the grave.

Anyways, the plant in the photo definitely looks like a soft fruit shrub. Any Blackcurrants nearby?

My Blackcurrant in a container suckers away madly in spite of me investing into a refined, if un-named, variety from Homebargains.

 

I have got a blackcurrant about 10ft away but it's not prickly. Definitely not the same.
I don't really know why I've still got it, we dont really eat them and neither does anything else.