the £ 2,000 designer tote bag , hand-made in japan , was a 50th birthday gift for hampstead woman , sabine smouha , from her husband jeremy , the director of an investments company .
but , when it arrived in britain in 2013 , customs officers confiscated it because nile crocodiles are a protected species and it did n't have the right documentation .
now , however , mrs smouha - who said she was ` very sad to lose her birthday present ' - has been handed victory by a tribunal judge .