Hwange (Zimbabwe) (AFP) - The professional Zimbabwean hunter who led the expedition that killed Cecil the lion was due to stand trial Wednesday on charges of organising an illegal hunt.Theo Bronkhorst, who runs a safari company, denies any wrongdoing over the hunt in early July when Walter Palmer, a dentist from the American state of Minnesota, paid $55,000 (50,000 euros) to shot the lion with a bow and arrow.The hunt provoked worldwide outrage when it emerged that Cecil was a well-known attraction among visitors to the Hwange National Park and was wearing a tracking collar as part of an Oxford University research project.Palmer, an experienced trophy hunter, became the target of vicious abuse and death threats over the killing, and went into hiding after demonstrations outside his dental practice.He apologised for killing Cecil, who was renowned for his distinctive black mane, and blamed Bronkhorst for misleading him.But Bronkhorst said that he was innocent of all charges and had obtained the permits required to kill an elderly lion that was outside the national park boundaries."We shot an old male lion that I believed was past his breeding age," Bronkhorst told AFP last week.

 

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