Article: Man `addicted' to stealing birds' eggs.(News)

Byline: Jenny Watson

A MAN addicted to collecting birds' eggs was jailed for three months yesterday.

He was sent to prison after being caught with nearly 300 eggs stolen from wild nests.

John Latham, 23, admitted stealing the eggs, including 14 from rare kingfishers. Latham,acabinet maker, is still paying off a pounds 2,500 fine imposed by magistrates in January for similar offences committed in the Orkney islands last year.

Within two months of that sentence, magistrates were told, Latham was back stealing more eggs, visiting nests from more than 61 species of birds all over the country in just three months.

The court heard ...

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