Agonising last hours of an exhausted and horrifically maimed lion king and one man's deadly vanity that led to its trophy killing

• Horrifically maimed by an arrow, Cecil managed to stay alive for 40 hours
• Alpha male lion had been lured from a national park and shot by a hunter
• American dentist Walter Palmer, 55, then followed animal's trail of blood
• They finally caught up, where Cecil was shot dead and his head hacked off 

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