Stuff sentence
A MAN at the centre of a plot to steal £100,000 of stuffed animals, including a chimpanzee in a top hat, is facing 200 hours of community service and a suspended jail sentence.
Jason Hopwood, 42, was the mastermind behind a raid on a taxidermy warehouse in Wimbledon and stealing the monkey as well as lions, a giraffe, a zebra, a penguin, a crocodile, and a sloth.
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