You can kill every species ...elephant, rhino and lion

Sickening boast at the first wildlife stalking show in UK

- NADA FARHOUD

SICKENING trophy hunting trips to shoot elephants, rhinos and lions in Africa were on sale at the UK's first ever stalking show.

Nearly 90 exhibitors attended the two-day event.

Among the Brits at the Staffordshire County Show cashing in on the bloodthirsty safaris was Venari UK, an agent offering trips to South Africa.

A representative boasted to an undercover investigator: "You can pretty much kill every species, elephant, rhino, lion." But he admitted: "I don't f***ing highly push it because that's the sh** that's a bit sensitive."

Another firm, Settlers Safaris, offers trips in Africa. When asked if there is a limit on how many species you can kill, it told an investigator from Humane Society International/UK: "The only limit is how much money you've got."

Venari UK, set up in 2019, is run by Tom Douglas, 31, from Salisbury, Wilts.

His father Robert has a taxidermy business called R S Douglas & Sons.