PA Daniel Stocks, 42, was sentenced to six months in prison after pleading guilty to trade in specimens

Daniel Stocks, 42, who also ran a website selling fake shrunken heads, used eBay to sell illegal taxidermy on a shop called Killer Curios UK. He was sentenced to six months in prison at Exeter Crown Court after pleading guilty to four charges relating to trade in specimens. The monkey parts, hornbill skull, chameleon and leopard cat specimens in his possession were confiscated.

The NCA described Stocks, from Kingkerswell, near Newton Abbot in Devon, as a "prolific" trader in illegal animal specimens.

Daniel Stocks was a prolific illegal specimen trader who thought the rules on protected species were there for others to worry about Dawn Cartwright - National Crime Agency

Border Force officials alerted the NCA to Stocks after finding a veiled chameleon specimen in a package sent to his address from Philadelphia. He did not have a licence to import the creature and was arrested. During a search of his house and a rented industrial unit, various items were found, including a stuffed African white-backed vulture, macaque heads and skulls, and monkey tails.

PA The NCA described Stocks as a 'prolific' trader in illegal animal specimens

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Monkey paws framed and mounted above the phrase Make A Wish were also discovered. An investigation found he had also been trading in horn bills, leopard cats and monkeys, in breach of Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species laws. Dawn Cartwright, of the NCA's border policing command, said: "Daniel Stocks was a prolific illegal specimen trader who thought the rules on protected species were there for others to worry about.

PA During a search of his house and a rented industrial unit, various items were found

PA Stocks had also been trading in horn bills, leopard cats and monkeys