Rhino horns are returned

London - An antiques dealer nearing the end of a life jail sentence for murdering his wife was yesterday handed back his retirement…

London - An antiques dealer nearing the end of a life jail sentence for murdering his wife was yesterday handed back his retirement nest egg - a collection of rhino horns expected to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. Wilfred Bull (62) won a ruling from the Court of Appeal that the collection should never have been confiscated when he was convicted of trying to sell it from his prison cell.

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