Get our daily email briefing straight to your inbox Sign up Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailOne of Britain’s top trophy hunters has boasted how his bloodthirsty hobby is like “mainlining on heroin”. In a video for gun fanatics Roberts told fellow hunter Diggory Hadoke that killing animals like is being “hooked” on a drug. “You don’t come off it very easily,” brags Roberts, 78, who owns J Roberts and Sons Gunmakers in West Sussex. The new book Killing Game: The Extinction Industry, says 6,000 lions have been killed by hunters since Cecil in 2015. He said: “Hunting dangerous animals is an excit-ing, honourable sport with long traditions, traceable throughout every human civilisation.”

Source: Daily Mirror June 30, 2020 21:04 UTC