‘I’m nuts about birds’

The ‘Pablo Escobar’ of bird egg smuggling told a court he is on a one man mission to conserve rare species. Jeffrey Lendrum, 56, was caught with £100,000 worth of rare eggs strapped to his body at Heathrow airport The former special forces soldier had 17 rare eggs of hawks, eagles and vultures taped to his chest and two chicks which had already hatched. Lendrum, a former member of the Rhodesian SAS, had flown in from South Africa and explained…