End this now

Fury as trophy hunter brags about killing 3 cheetah cubs

- NADA FARHOUD

CAMPAIGNERS are pleading for an immediate ban on trophy hunting after a notorious shooter gloried in his slaughter of three cheetah cubs.

Cameron Hopkins shamelessly posted images of the dead big cats despite there being just 7,000 of the animals left in the African wild.

The US ammunition maker boasted: "My name is Cameron Hopkins and I proudly killed three cheetah cubs... I'd do it again under the same circumstances. Hunters who obscure their faces are moral cowards.

"To prove my pride in my African hunting, I'm posting the trophies I shot as varmints in Namibia. All three are cubs, about one-year-old.