palmer: While Zimbabwean authorities said Palmer had legal authority to hunt, they were stung by the international outcry and charged local hunter Theo Bronkhorst, who assisted Palmer, with failing to prevent an unlawful hunt, according to Nine News Australia. Bronkhorst lawyers then applied to the High Court to set aside the charge, arguing it could not have been an offence under the country wildlife laws if Palmer had a permit to hunt. Walter Palmer, a lifelong big-game hunter from the US state of Minnesota, touched off a global controversy when he killed Cecil, a rare black-maned lion, with a bow and arrow outside Hwange National Park in western Zimbabwe in July 2015. The court granted us that prayer yesterday - that the charges be quashed. Cecil had been fitted with a collar to track his movements but strayed outside the confines of Hwange National Park and was then shot. So I cannot imagine the state coming back again charging him with the same charge, said Lovemore Muvhiringi, a lawyer for Bronkhorst.
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