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carly:
And they dare to criticize other cultures about living in the dark ages...the apple doesn't fall far from the tree in this case. >:( >:(
Kinderchick:
Very, very sad & also causes me to feel angry when hearing of this. :'( >:(
Cooper:
Just came across this news report of a female peregrine shot in Lincoln. >:(
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-12682039
sami:
Sounds like the justices don't put much importance on endangered species.
The Peregrine Chick:
Rare birds’ egg thief has jail sentence slashed
A FORMER Special Forces soldier from Towcester, who sparked a terrorist alert trying to smuggle £70,000 of rare birds’ eggs out of the UK, has had his sentence almost halved by judges at The Court of Appeal.
Jeffrey Lendrum, aged 48, was caught by police at Birmingham Airport with 14 eggs strapped to his chest, about to board a flight to Dubai, when a cleaner in the Emirates business class lounge grew suspicious over him repeatedly visiting the showers. The falcon eggs, bound for the black market, had been placed in socks before being taped to his body in May last year.
At yesterday’s appeal hearing, Sir Christopher Holland said Lendrum, who once served in the Rhodesian SAS, pilfered the extremely rare eggs from nests in the Welsh mountains, hoping to trade them at lucrative overseas markets in the Middle East.
He had climbed into tree tops to bag the eggs, before abseiling down with his catch, the court heard. When caught by police at the airport, he was trying to examine the condition of the 14 eggs, fearing they may have perished. The appeal judge said the eggs were “happily still in good order” when recovered and 11 later hatched, with the chicks released into the wild.
Lendrum, of York Close, Towcester, who also has an Irish passport, tried to talk his way out of trouble by telling counter-terrorism police they were chicken eggs which he had brought from Waitrose, but he eventually came clean.
He was jailed for 30 months at Wolverhampton Crown Court in August after admitting trying to evade UK customs controls and theft. But he challenged his sentence, which Sir Christopher, sitting with Lord Justice Moore-Bick and Mrs Justice Cox, agreed was “excessive”, slashing it to 18 months.
There are only 1,400 breeding pairs of peregrine falcons in the UK with the birds regarded as an endangered species.
http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/local/rare_birds_egg_thief_has_jail_sentence_slashed_1_2370428
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