Rosa King
12 Jul 2019 · Coroner Nicholas Moss · Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
The coroner's concerns
1. uncontrolled tiger attack
“Should a tiger escape from the tiger enclosures at Hamerton Zoo or a keeper should inadvertently find themselves in the same area as a tiger, | am concerned that the zoo still does not currently have access to conventional firearms to shoot a tiger in that situation to preserve human life”
2. escape through single gate
“The zoo has since fitted air-lock type gates at the those entrances to their tiger enclosures that are regularly used by keepers”
3. excessive overtime and night-time hand-rearing
“the risk assessment of Hamerton zoo s”