A wealthy Chinese businessman has received 13 years jail sentence with a fine of 1.55 million yuan ($25,000), for Killing three tigers so he could eat their penises and drink their blood, gxnews.com.cn reported.
China's official Xinhua news agency said Xi Pat had 'a special hobby of grilling tiger bones, boning tiger paws, storing tiger penis, eating tiger meat and drinking tiger blood alcohol'.
A court heard he ate the genitals and drank the animals' blood before giving the rest of the meat to his business friends and partners. The court heard he organised three separate trips last year for 15 people, including himself, to Leizhou in the southern province of Guangdong, where they bought tigers for a 'huge amount of money' that were killed and dismembered as they watched.
One of the group filmed the entire process of a tiger slaughter with his mobile phone. The footage was later obtained by police.
He also had exotic meats including gecko and cobra were also found in the fridge.
A court in Guangxi convicted the 15 of 'illegally transporting precious and endangered wild animal products'.
Prosecutors claim the illegal poaching operation saw at least 10 tigers being killed and eaten.
They said that the tigers had been killed by electrocution so that the hide could be removed and used to create trophies that were handed out to his friends.
Excerpt from Mailonline
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