Snail Stoppage

UK Border Force officers have seized 36 live giant African land snails from a Nigerian man at Glasgow Airport. This man claimed that they would be used for food back in the UK after he was on a flight from Amsterdam. The molluscs were confiscated and passed to a helpful rescue organisation. I don't know what they would do with them! These snails average at about 15cm in length and the shells are about the size of a human fist. They say these snails could have passed UK snails a lethal disease if they were to be released. He was also in breach of the control of imported animals. 

These are the giant African land snails that have been confiscated