*Lured* outside the preserve, was it not?
At least I thought I read that. No?
Unless it was collared or tagged, how is anyone to know which lion it was? Because the black maned preserve lion went missing doesn't mean the dentist killed it. That lion was supposedly 13 years old, it had sired many, many offspring, some of whom might also have black manes.
Furthermore, one doesn't bait a specific lion any more than one chums a specific shark.
The Hwange National Park is enormous. Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Tetons, Redwood, Shenandoah and Crater Lake National Parks will fit inside it with room to spare. Think about it!
Someone was looking to make a political case and this Dentist is the unfortunate person fitting the target profile. The physical hunter became the politically hunted.