This time, it was his jacket that gave him away. Not because an eagle-eyed customs officer had spotted a tell-tale bulge over the 19 live eggs bound to his waist, but because Jeffrey Lendrum’s heavy coat looked odd on the hot summer’s day as he headed out of London’s Heathrow Airport.
A suspicious border officer pulled over the 57-year-old ex-special military man. “When asked whether he had anything to declare,”said a border agency report, “Lendrum stated he had some Fish Eagle and Kestrel eggs strapped to his body.”
