This BBC story about the poacher ‘killed’ by elephants and ‘eaten’ by lions is dead wrong.

Worse than wrong, even. It’s outright libel. Things didn’t happen that way.

A suspected rhino poacher has been trampled on by an elephant then eaten by a pride of lions in Kruger National Park, South Africa.

Accomplice poachers told the victim’s family that he had been killed by an elephant on Tuesday. Relatives notified the park ranger.

A search party struggled to find the body but eventually found a human skull and a pair of trousers on Thursday.

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