Tiger pics were real all along: Farmer

XI'AN: Zhou Zhenglong, the man who won his appeal for a lighter sentence after being found guilty of producing fake photographs of the endangered South China tiger, has now claimed the images were real all along.

On Saturday, the farmer from Zhenping county, Shaanxi province, sent an e-mail to Liu Liyuan, an associate professor at Beijing Normal University, asking him to help him prove the photographs are real.

Liu had earlier supported Zhou's claims that the photographs of the rare beast were authentic.