TWO men accused of trading in the taxidermy of endangered species have had their case adjourned while lawyers research new laws involved in the prosecution.
Darrell Kevin Cosgrove, 41, and Paul Barrett, 58, appeared at Hyndburn Magistrates' Court, each charged with 28 offences involving items on sale at the Sellitall shop in Blackburn Road, Accrington, in March.
Both face 20 charges under the Control of Trade in Endangered Species regulations and eight charges under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.
Among the haul seized by police from the shop were three tawny owls, a European eagle owl, a sparrowhawk, two buzzards, two peregrine falcons, a Eurasian owl, a red squirrel, a Scottish wildcat, a mounted otter's head and a mounted badger's head.
Cosgrove, of Timber-hurst, Bury, and Barrett of Ribble Drive, Bury, will return to court on October 3.
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