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Jilly Beattie

Illegal puppy farmer handed 90 MINUTES community service for each dog who suffered in his care

An illegal puppy farmer has been sentenced to 90 MINUTES community service for each of the dogs he caused to suffer unnecessarily.

Patrick Terrence Finn from Ennislare Road, Armagh, was given a total of 80 hours community service for keeping 49 dogs in ‘inadequate, unsuitable and squalid conditions’. They included 17 puppies.

The council described Finn’s trade as “one of the most serious cases of illegal puppy farming and neglect that we have come across” and the USPCA’s chief executive Nora Smith slammed the sentence as an “insult”.

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