Oh, and by the way, here are the court docs—and he was 40 miles out the legal area when he shot the bear, before he and his buddies moved it:
Your hatred of hunters makes your conclusions suspect. He paid 50k to be guided. When you are guided the GUIDE assumes all responsibility for the hunts validity. Funny. The only normal person from Africa who I have heard resoinding to this story said that his first reaction to the story was - Good, one less predator to eat the children.
OK, point given. However, it does not follow that he was actually “paying to hunt down and kill a famed lion called Cecil” (to quoute the article given). This still does not make the case of his guilt.