This was a terrible experience for his daughter, and particularly for the poor tracker. Boddington subsequently attempted to create a fund raiser for the tracker. That generated a lot of negative response - not with respect to the tracker, but because the Boddington family business venture seemed to be dodging any fiscal responsibility for the tracker's injuries. I offer no opinion on that.
However, I will note that situation and the subsequent actions were not entirely different than that experienced by Stu Taylor who was shot through the back by his celebrity client Tim Herald.
Each of you can decide what your personal sense of responsibility would be under similar circumstances. I will say that I would hope that mine would at least not be rationalizing that putting a bullet through either was somehow the fault of the PH who was managing the hunt.
If I may offer a very different example, a young PH who guided me in Namibia many years ago and subsequent to this event, was charged by a leopard wounded by his Argentine client. The cat had him on the ground and the client put a 300 WM through the leopard's neck taking off about a third of the PH's hand. The local hospital in Omaruru sort of sewed everything back together. I saw it, and the work was nightmarish. For instance, the skin of his middle finger was tacked to the top of his wrist. To the client's credit, he subsequently picked up the uncovered costs of reconstructive surgery in Johannesburg.
