Thugs who ran a deadly dog fighting ring from their GARAGE where they let the animals rip each other apart in bloody fights have been jailed.
Phillip Ali - who styled himself as 'Dr Death' - trained up the animals for fighting and injected them with steriods from the home of couple Billy and Amy Leadley.
The three, along with Ali's accomplice Stephen Brown, appeared in court on Monday for animal cruelty charges. The couple had claimed the garage was being used for a birthing pit, but blood spatters revealed its macabre use as a dog fighting arena.
The gang then sent out reports following each deadly fight, one of which bragged about a dog biting another "in the throat" and "shaking hard".
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