Cecil the Lion---dead at the hands of a hunter

[LPC]

I read about this case yesterday but was too busy to post a reply. The dentist's Facebook page has been suspended because it has been flooded with criticism of his action. People are also flooding his Yelp page - see http://www.yelp.com/biz/river-bluff-dental-bloomington - and putting in five star reviews (as they go to the top and get noticed), or one star reviews (saying "I would never go to a dentist who......") with lots of comments about his killing of the lion. Yelp are removing these reviews, but each one has to be read by a member of staff first - and people are posting them faster than they can remove them!

This dentist has a previous conviction for illegal hunting (fined for killing a bear outside of an authorised area), so he is a persistent killer of wildlife. Yet he has not been charged - even though the local people have been arrested already.

This case reminds me of Kendall Jones, the lion killer of last year - mentioned in the Guardian article you mentioned above.