SURGEON.. AND TROPHY HUNTER

Transplant expert accused of killing animals on South African safari trip

- AMY-CLARE MARTIN

A FORMER top transplant surgeon has been named as a prolific trophy hunter accused of killing dozens of animals including buffaloes.

Campaigners say Prof Michael Thick and his wife Catherine imported hides from their kills back to Britain to turn them into jackets and bags.

The former professor of genomics was named among 100 British trophy hunters by investigators for the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting.

According to a book, Saving Sally: Trophy Hunters' Secrets and Lies, written by the campaign's founder Eduardo Goncalves, the couple shot 36 or 37 animals during their most recent safari in South Africa.