‘Mr Eels’ walks free after court hears he is vulnerable to the the coronovirus

A pensioner who smuggled more than £53m worth of rare baby eels to the Far East from a barn in the West Country has been spared jail after a court heard he may be vulnerable to the coronovirus. Gilbert Khoo, 67, imported the live elvers from Spain before hiding them under hauls of chilled fish and sending them off to Heathrow. The critically endangered European glass eels were bound for Malaysia and Hong Kong, where they are a culinary delicacy….