A seafood salesman has been given a two-year suspended jail sentence for smuggling an estimated £53m worth of endangered live eels out of the UK. Gilbert Khoo, 67, transported the eels from London to Hong Kong, hidden underneath chilled fish, between 2015 and 2017, a court heard. He was caught after Border Force officers found […]

  Police swooped on two addresses in Kent to seize illegally imported Siamese crocodile skulls. A total of three skulls were found at two separate properties during the raids by Kent police and officers from the UK Wildlife Crime Unit. Police said the owners of the skulls, who are thought to have purchased them online, […]

A Cheltenham man who tried to export elephant tusks and walrus ivory out of the country has avoided jail today. Peter Maw, 65, of Duke Street, Cheltenham, appeared at Gloucester Crown Court today to be sentenced after he had previously pleaded guilty to five counts of fraudulently evading any duty, prohibition, restriction or provision, on […]