Trophy hunt Brit ‘has killed 100s’
Company director tours world shooting animals
LAID out in a solemn row yesterday, these caskets represent victims of the Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 crash.
Thousands of mourners lined the streets of capital Addis Ababa to pay their respects to the dead.
The six empty coffins were among 17 taken on a procession to Holy Trinity Cathedral. Flight 302 came down after leaving Addis Ababa on March 10. All 157 on board, including nine Brits, died.
Analysis of the Boeing 737 Max 8’s black box showed similarities with October’s Lion Air crash in Indonesia. Procession arrives at cathedral A WEALTHY British businessman has been revealed as one of the most prolific wildlife trophy hunters in the world.
Malcolm King, 74, the director of a company based in the British Virgin Islands tax haven, travels around the globe shooting wild animals for fun.
A dossier by the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting shows Mr King appears more than 30 times on a website which awards hunters for killing animals including the African “Big Five” – lion, leopard, elephant, rhino and buffalo.
He is a member of the Safari Club International, which tries to promote hunting as conservation.
One SCI award – the Grand Slam Cats of the World – required four Crowd pays respects at march yesterday Grieving relative weeps over coffin of one of victims creatures to be killed from a list that includes lion, leopard, cheetah, wildcat, cougar and lynx.
Mr King is also named as having completed the Grand Slam African 29, which needs a minimum of three of the Big Five killed, along MASS KILLER Hunter Malcolm King with 26 other creatures. Eduardo Goncalves, of the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting, said. “King is among the world’s ‘elite’ big game hunters – very few have amassed so many of the industry’s obscene awards. If you add the minimum number of kills needed for all his awards, it comes to well over 500.”
Mr King has denied being a trophy hunter, insisting he was simply a huntsman who has now retired. He said hunting was “no different to stalking or culling animals in the Highlands” and insists “there is nothing wrong if done ethically and legally”.
The CBTH said 1.7 million animals have been killed by trophy hunters in the past decade, of which more than 200,000 were endangered species.