Animal rights group brands top restaurant critic a “legitimate target” after baboon slaughter

By Rory Reynolds

THE ANIMAL Liberation Front have said that restaurant critic AA Gill is a “legitimate target” after he boasted of how he shot dead a baboon for sport.

The group – who have been involved in terror attacks on workers involved in animal research – have said that some of its members may take “direct action” against the writer.

The Sunday Times columnist boasted to readers last week that he gunned down the endangered creature on a safari in Tanzania, to “get a sense of what it might be like to kill someone”.

The Edinburgh-born writer, 55, said: “I took him just below the armpit. He slumped and slid sideways.

“I’m told they can be tricky to shoot: they run up trees, hang on for grim life.