IT'S NOT ONLY THE RAPES AND MURDERS THAT ARE TRIED AT THE OLD BAILEY

Couple jailed for selling African animal meat

Daily Telegraph 19/06/2001

TWO shopkeepers who traded in meat from African animals were jailed for four months at the Old Bailey yesterday.
Mobolaji Osakuade, 40, and Rose Kinnane, 35, were at the hub of an operation which entailed smuggling endangered species into Britain. Lion carcasses, costing £5,000 each, were offered for sale along with porcupines, goats, antelopes and snails. All came from West Africa.
Osakuade and Kinnane, his common law wife, also traded in banned snake and lizard skins for traditional ethnic medicines. Osakuade, from Dulwich, south London, had pleaded guilty last month to being concerned in the importation and sale of a monkey. He was also found guilty of eight other charges connected with lizard and python skins.
Kinnane was found guilty of 10 offences, including two involving an anteater. The court was told that the couple ran a business catering to the expatriate West African community. Their sideline in exotic animals was uncovered by a journalist who posed as the nephew of a tribal chief and was offered monkey, lion, tiger and anteater body parts.