Respect for Animals reports that
Michael Moosah, owner of Gale Furs, in Primrose Hill, was fined only UKPounds 1,000 after pleading guilty at City of Westminster magistrates court to trading the skins illegally. Moosah, 65, of Camden, was arrested in October last year when officers from the Metropolitan Police’s Wildlife Crime Unit swooped on his store following a tip-off. They confiscated eight coats, including ones made from a snow leopard, a eurasian lynx, tigers and ocelots. Staff at the shop in Regent’s Park Road insisted they had done nothing wrong as the coats were antiques passed on by customers but Gale Furs was fined after pleading guilty to trading the skins illegally. The sentence could have been five years’ imprisonment and UKPounds 5,000 fine.
