A heartbroken sufferer has demanded puppy farmers who made a fortune promoting dying and mistreated dogs needs to be jailed.
Brothers Tom and William Mongan had been a part of a gang who flooded Scotland with pups, inflicting “unspeakable cruelty” and bringing untold distress for a lot of households.
The Record can reveal that Tom Mongan, 28, was sentenced in May in Northern Ireland for related offences – receiving a 10-year ban from maintaining animals, and neighborhood service.
He and William, 39, admitted additional prices at Glasgow Sheriff Court final week. They had been charged after we revealed heartbreaking revelations on useless and dying pups that led to a probe by the Scottish SPCA’s Special Investigations Unit.
The courtroom heard the variety of dogs concerned is presumably into double figures – however it’s believed the Mongans offered a whole bunch of dogs and should have made greater than £1million from the commerce.
The Record advised in March 2021 how the gang from the Dunmurry Estate, Belfast, rented Airbnb properties in Scotland, which they used to current as their very own houses, giving harmless clients a false sense of safety.
Sophie Jones Gerrard, 28, advised how her life was turned the wrong way up after she purchased dying pup Freya for £1500, in early 2021. Tiny Freya died inside days, inflicting large anguish and a £500 vet invoice as Sophie tried to save lots of her life.
Sophie, from Kilwinning, stated: “Freya was offered as a beagle however she simply didn’t look something like that and we suspect she was a Jack Russell cross. The ache I suffered when she died is tough to overstate, as I shaped a right away bond.
“I attempted so exhausting to save lots of Freya’s life and she or he was fed with a syringe for 10 days however it all ended very badly and she or he died in my arms at 3am.
“All she had wanted to do was cuddle in close. At the end I felt her body get very cold and she made a pitiful sound and just died. It’s upsetting to think of it even now.”
Sophie stated she believed the Mongans to be concerned in industrial scale puppy buying and selling.
She stated: “I now know the individuals who offered her had been solely out for the money. They knew she was in a really unhealthy method once they handed her over.
“I can’t even guess what number of different folks they’ve achieved this to and what number of puppies have died. They deserve lengthy jail sentences and each penny they’ve produced from puppy farming taken from them.
“They should also be banned from ever owning or selling an animal ever again.”
Sophie stated she had been sickened by Tom Mongan’s lies. She stated: “I used to be talking to him on the telephone and he stated his title was William. By the time I got here to do a financial institution switch in fee it was to an account of Tom Mongan.
“When I queried the name change he said that William was his boyfriend. He had a smooth answer for everything, all lies. He also had a scanner that he used to verify Freya’s chip, which proved to be a fake.”
Sophie was later advised by the SSPCA the litter of pups that Freya got here from had all died in related circumstances.
Charges towards Tom Mongan said Freya was underweight and beset by parasites. It is believed she had parvovirus, which regularly kills dogs which haven’t been vaccinated.
At Glasgow Sheriff Court, Tom pled responsible to 3 prices of inflicting pointless struggling, which led to not less than three dogs dying.
Mongan rented Airbnb properties in Glasgow’s Shawlands and Tollcross, the place he introduced Freya and fellow pups Bella and Albi to households who had been searching for a loving pet. The dogs had been riddled with illness and died.
William pled responsible to 2 prices of inflicting “a number of dogs unnecessary suffering” at properties within the metropolis’s Giffnock and Ibrox between December 2020 and February 2021.
Their wives, Ellie Mongan, 30, and Brigid Mongan, 40, had their not responsible pleas accepted.
Sheriff McGuire stated: “In phrases of the fees earlier than me, what cruelty there was seems almost unspeakable.
“The cruelty to so many animals over a period of time is something I take very seriously.”
Each offence could possibly be met with a 12-month jail time period and a £20,000 fantastic. Sentence shall be handed in November.
An SSPCA particular investigations unit officer stated: “We are continually working hard to combat this type of crime. If you are buying a puppy and you feel something isn’t quite right then please do not buy the animal and report any concerns on 03000 999 999.”
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