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Crime

These images show the bones of 27 lions slaughtered to be sold to the Far East for use in medicines or to be made into trinkets. South African police swooped on a house after a tip-off that the 7,000 bones had been specially dried ready to be smuggled abroad. The remains, made up of both lions and lionesses, are worth £4,500 each on the black market and are normally spirited out of the country on cargo flights. Tory Peer Lord Ashcroft has long campaigned against the sickening trade and his in-depth investigations have shown over 3,000 farms in South Africa are involved in the trade.