£100k rare eggs brought to UK by jailed SAS wildlife hunter dubbed ‘Pablo Escobar of the egg trade’

A bird centre has hatched £100,000 worth of rare eggs smuggled into the UK by an SAS-trained wildlife hunter dubbed the ‘Pablo Escobar of the egg trade’.

The International Centre for Birds of Prey has hand-reared 17 chicks after their eggs were seized from smuggler Jeffrey Lendrum by customs officers at Heathrow Airport. He attempted to smuggle them from South Africa strapped to his chest in a sling hidden beneath a heavy coat in June last year.