Obviously, nothing is going to persuade you from your conclusion. And yes, he was found to have driven the bear onto the legal site and then declared to have killed it there when taking it to be weighed. He was, I believe, fined.
B&A hunting leads to lots such day-long suffering, and no, I don’t begrudge a lion its kill. Jeesh!
The man is not a hunter for food or for need. He is a hunter paying obscene amounts to get perverse jollies.
I have not seen to the document regarding his previous violations and I doubt that you have either. This is critical to make Internet facts, facts.
Any hunting may lead to suffering. Bow hunters, in my experience, tend to be better hunters and more certain of their shots and follow up because they have to be if dealing with dangerous game. The fact that he followed up the next day says volumes a non-hunter would never understand. Read Hemingway.
Finally, the practice of trophy hunting escapes me, too. However, these are the people who actually pay the freight for all the other ‘save the animals’ types, This man actually pays to preserve animals which is something 99.9% of all the whiners do not. Add to that the expense, risk and skill needed to take the big five and I would not find “jollies” a fitting word. He takes the challenge of killing his animals upfront which is far more than most do. Most people meekly go to the grocer and pay for the portion of the animal they want to be assassinated for them in distant and horrible (for the animal) abattoirs.
If you are a vegetarian or don't hunt you own meat, you stand on very shaky ground. Watch out for whose oxen you kill . . .