GRANDAD: I'M ADDICTED TO SHOOTING MONKEYS

Blasts baboon on hol then proudly poses for photo

- BY NADA FARHOUD

A SCOTTISH trophy hunter is among big game ghouls who have shot over 500 monkeys and baboons on safari trips, say campaigners.

The sick thrillseekers include the grandad who blasted a rare albino baboon, proudly posed for a photograph next to its bloody corpse, and then had it stuffed and mounted.

Contacted online by undercover investigators posing as fellow blood sport fans, Chris Hemingway sent them photos of his trophy room and boasted that he had more trips booked.

Hemingway, who used a South African safari firm that has a sales agent in the UK, crowed: "Last time I was out I shot a white baboon. I've got that fully mounted." Gloating on Facebook in December about his trophy, he wrote: "Better than Elf on shelf! How about a baboon at ye bed head! And a white one at that."

Hemingway, who lives near Kelso with his wife Jayne, admitted he was addicted to safari hunting.

He wrote: "Neil (Jones)... always tried to get me to go. He said, 'If you go, you'll want to go again' And he was right! I'm hooked! I am."

Hemingway also claimed that his wife had shot a donkey in order to feed it to lions: "She's got pretty hooked now! I think she'll be wanting one or two of her own trophies."

His boasts were revealed in a report from the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting.

The report, called Monkey SHOCKED Jane Goodall Business, also reveals how British hunting holiday firms sell monkey and baboon-shooting experiences.