The rhino, called Simba
A MAN who tried to smuggle the horn of a dead rhino from Colchester Zoo out of the country has been jailed.
Donald Allison, 52, of Preston, Lancashire, hid the horn in a bronze sculpture as he tried to board a flight to China from Manchester airport.
The horn, believed to be worth about £120,000 was from a rhino which died at Colchester Zoo in 2009.
Allison was today sentenced at Manchester Crown Court to 12 months in prison.
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