NEWSLINK: Cradley Heath legend Lew Foley 'released pet lions onto Malvern Hills'

Black Country eccentric Lew Foley – who kept a pride of lions at his Cradley Heath home – unleashed the beasts on the Malvern Hills, a close friend claims.

What’s more, Lew also liberated big cats for other people whose collections of downright dangerous pets flew in the face of the newly introduced Dangerous Wild Animals Act.

Lew’s friend, Norman Catton, has broken his silence about the secret Malvern Mission following last week’s appeal in our sister title, the Sunday Mercury.

We revealed how Channel 5 are considering a documentary on the man who regularly took his three lions walkies and even brought them to his local pub.

Norman, who now lives in Halesowen, was one of the few Lew confided in after the big cats disappeared from his back garden.

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