Teenager stole £2,000 giant tortoise from a safari park and sold it on Facebook for just £30

A teenager stole an endangered tortoise worth £2,000 from a safari park and sold it on Facebook for a paltry £30.

Adam Steff took Flo, a 4.5lb juvenile Aldabra giant tortoise, from Woburn Safari Park in Milton Keynes after he wandered into her enclosure while drunk.

The 18-year-old originally tried to sell Flo for what she was worth, then accepted an offer of just £30 for the tortoise.

Police arrested Steff, a bricklaying student, after matching his DNA to saliva on a beer can left at the scene.


Steff, of Flitton, Bedfordshire, has sold the tortoise to 19-year-old Aiden Mckinstery.

McKinstery later posted a picture of it on Facebook asking for name suggestions for his new pet which was spotted by a member of Woburn staff who realised it was helpless Flo.

He claimed he didn't know the reptile was stolen after Steff had turned up at his house with her in the early hours of the morning on January 5.

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