A professional dog walker killed two of her clients' dogs by leaving them in her car on one of the hottest days of the year.
Christine Carpenter abandoned two spaniels she was paid to walk in the boot of her car, days after the Met Office had issued its first ever extreme heat weather warning last summer.
The animals - a King Charles Cavalier named Poppie and a cross called Pixie - were dead 'within minutes', as temperatures reached 29 degrees centigrade outside, a court heard.
