...Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, 70 — appointed Master of The Queen's Music last year — insists the Icelandic whooper swan was already dead when he found it near his home in the Orkney Isles.
| "It ain 't mine. Somebody left it here." |
Cops raided his house on Sanday with a search warrant after spotting it hanging up. The birds are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act. Yesterday, Sir Peter denied any wrongdoing to the BBC's Around Orkney programme. His London manager added that swans are often killed by flying into power lines and it was "not unusual" for people to eat them on the Scottish isles.
There must be a good half dozen limericks in there, somewhere. |