The Royally Strange Case
of Prince Harry and the Harriers.
It has been confi rmed that no charges will be
pressed following the disappearance of a pair of hen
harriers, one of England’s most endangered species,
on the border of the royal estate at Sandringham.
Local nature wardens witnessed the birds
dropping from the sky accompanied by the
sound of a gunshot.
A police investigation into
the incident later involved questioning Prince
Harry, who, er, happened to be there with two
pals shooting at the time.
More curiously, the bodies of the birds have since
vanished making it impossible to prove evidence of
any crime. (The penalty for killing protected birds
can carry a six-month prison sentence.)
It is surely impossible that members of the
royal family and estate could be fallacious in their
interpretation of events. It is also impossible that
armed intruders should be roaming in the vicinity
of the Sandringham Estate unchallenged.
The only possible if improbable solution is that the birds
committed suicide in a death pact which just happened
to be just after a nearby car back-fired and
were immediately swallowed whole by a passing
predator... Quick Watson, the game is afoot!
