Sick puppies feared to have been bred in appalling conditions are being sold for thousands of pounds by crooks at a motorway service station.
Buyers have paid up to £3,000 for pets thought to have come from breeding farms. Many had the deadly, highly infectious canine parvovirus, along with worms and other diseases.
Sellers advertising on well-known websites tell buyers to go to a car park at Maidstone Services on the M20 in Kent. One of the crooks, a tanned man in his 40s who wears a surgical mask and black gloves, is said to use aliases including Graham, Alan and Steve.
Mae Goodwin, 21, from Tenterden in Kent, paid £2,150 in cash for a Cavalier King Charles spaniel she called Barney – and it died of a virus eight days later.
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