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In the next half an hour, whth the NHS in the North East paying private | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
ambulance companies to take us to hospital, do we know who we are | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
really dealing with? The first time we went out, it would not start Why | :00:17. | :00:26. | |
have substandard vehicles to carry members of the public around? He was | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
banned by the kennel club and he sells six puppies. I finallx caught | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
up with him. Why are you involved in the selling of aggressive docs to | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
complete strangers? Stories from the heart of the North East and Cumbria. | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
This is Inside Out. If ever you have to be rushdd to | :00:48. | :01:05. | |
hospital by ambulance, you're probably assume it is an NHS | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
paramedic or driver looking after you. In fact, it is just as likely | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
to be a private ambulance company. So now you are thinking thex have | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
been fully vetted by the NHS. Here in the North East it seems we have | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
not police this new frontier of health care. So I have turndd | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
sheriff to investigate. It hs a bit like eight lawless land where anyone | :01:34. | :01:41. | |
can do what they want. It is shocking it was allowed to get to | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
that point. . `` it is a horrible feeling. People should not be | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
allowed to do that. A fronther where the world of Ambulance Servhces have | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
been open up to private companies. As in any Western, there ard good | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
skies and bad skies. It is like the wild West out there. Last ydar the | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
NHS spend ?50 million on prhvate ambulance firms. It is a bit like a | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
cold rush. In the North East, the NHS paid one company more than | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
?600,000, but it disappeared without trace, leaving a very bad t`ste Two | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
years on and one of the men behind East Coast is back. Matthew Quigley | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
is his name. He rolled into town in 2011. One of the heat guns `t East | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
Coast. To start with, things went well. East Coast supply par`medics | :02:42. | :02:50. | |
and then started running and balances. They recruited drhvers | :02:51. | :02:59. | |
with post advertised in the job centre. I thought it was gohng to be | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
something good. This job cale up and the wage was really good. I was | :03:07. | :03:14. | |
delighted. Drivers were recruited, trained and ready for work. We | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
turned up at the East Coast ambulance headquarters and ht was a | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
parking space. The first dax we went out, the balloons would not start. | :03:23. | :03:32. | |
Why have substandard vehiclds that were not properly equipped to run | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
members of the public around in Because behind the scenes the wagon | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
wheels had come off. There was a wrangle over invoices. East Coast's | :03:42. | :03:52. | |
contract was terminated. Thdy would tell us anything, mostly by e`mail. | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
You could not get hold of anyone on the phone. I did not care about what | :03:57. | :04:05. | |
was going on, I just wanted my wages that I had worked for. I had | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
nothing. Financially, I was in Paris to because I had to go cap hn hand | :04:13. | :04:23. | |
to my partner. `` I was embarrassed. I had to ask mx father | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
for money. He is a pensioner. They have no choice, they had to call in | :04:30. | :04:37. | |
the law. Eight drivers took the company to court and won ?24,00 in | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
unpaid wages. Meanwhile, Debbie Surman dog into Matthew Quigley s | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
past. There is a paper trail that leads back to all the peopld he has | :04:51. | :04:57. | |
dealt with. I am an ordinarx person who wanted to find out who H was | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
dealing with. What she found out about Matthew Quigley was straight | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
out of the movies. He was involved in a string of private ambulance | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
companies that went belly up owing the NHS and you and me tens of | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
thousands of pounds. He has been in the game a long time. First there | :05:19. | :05:31. | |
was Medi`Logistics. It coll`psed in 2006, owing millions, including | :05:32. | :05:39. | |
?67,000 to the NHS. Matthew Quigley walked away just days beford the | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
end. His next company went the same way and again he quit days before it | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
fell apart. He was cleared `nd cropped in 2007. Game over? No. He | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
was back at the table with Dvolved Medical Services, a third private | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
ambulance company. It also went down, leaving more than ?3 lillion | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
in bets. Graphic designer Lhsa Kew was owed money. For a period it went | :06:11. | :06:20. | |
fine and then there were waves of it not going fine and again, that | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
company folded. He owed me puite a lot of money. She was owed 3500 | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
pounds in unpaid bills and he disappeared, or so she taught. He | :06:34. | :06:41. | |
had the nerve to call and s`y what I do more branding for another | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
company. I told him he must be joking. Remember, this all happened | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
before my Matthew Quigley c`me to Newcastle. What checks had they done | :06:52. | :07:02. | |
behind the people behind East Coast? In hindsight, I wish we had done | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
more detailed checks. One wd investigated, we found out there was | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
a whole catalogue of issues. It is not rocket science. I understand | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
what you are saying. I wish the team had known about his past. What steps | :07:21. | :07:32. | |
have been taken to warn the rest of the NHS? I have spoken to the | :07:33. | :07:49. | |
finance team. However, therd is more that I could have done. Back in the | :07:50. | :07:57. | |
wild West, Matthew Quigley has turned up again, touting for | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
business online. I posed as a wealthy investor. He told md there | :08:02. | :08:12. | |
was a company for cell in the North East. Not surprisingly, Matthew did | :08:13. | :08:24. | |
not want to speak to the re`l me. He told me he was not investing in the | :08:25. | :08:30. | |
North East. However, what about his creditors? He said there were no | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
losses and he blamed the delise of these posts on another director | :08:37. | :08:47. | |
When it comes to Matthew Quhgley, you're not going to do business with | :08:48. | :08:57. | |
him again, you? No, absolutdly not. We would like to have a verx long | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
chat with him about his conduct and professional ethics and how he | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
treats people who are trying to make an honest living, and how c`n he | :09:08. | :09:16. | |
sleep at night? The industrx is now related by the Care Quality | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
Commission. We asked them for an interview, but they declined. I ll | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
how from the Department of Health also did not want to be intdrviewed, | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
but he said the CQC now has powers to remove directors who are keen to | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
be unfit. The real test is hf someone else tries it on. Whll they | :09:37. | :09:44. | |
be run out of town? It is great when you respond to our | :09:45. | :09:53. | |
show. There are some things you keep contacting us about, includhng a | :09:54. | :10:03. | |
couple of dog breeders. We have received complaints about them for | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
years, so we thought it was time to open our case files again. | :10:08. | :10:19. | |
This one comes round again `nd again. I have two big probldms in | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
County Durham. Problem one ` Darran Green. In 2005, we caught hhm | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
bringing puppies from Ireland to sell. People said the dogs they | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
bought from his family were ill or worse still. We only had hil for | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
about six hours, from start to finish, before he died. We `rranged | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
to to buy a puppy from Darr`n's stepson Robert Emberson. Thdn this | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
happened. Nice guy. Then thdre's problem two. Kevin Knox. For five | :10:51. | :10:58. | |
years, customers have been telling us he's... An idiot. Among other | :10:59. | :11:06. | |
things. We investigated him twice in 2010. He'd sold many sick ptppies | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
too. I was just crying my exes out, I couldn't believe it. So what are | :11:11. | :11:18. | |
these men up to now? Word is that Knox is sill selling sick and | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
diseased puppies. And Darren Green's dogs? They are dangerous or could be | :11:22. | :11:28. | |
dangerous in the wrong hands. I'm back in County Durham, to | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
investigate Knox and Green. I have one question. Why can't these two | :11:32. | :11:39. | |
men be shut down for good? Ivy Leaf Kennels. The notorhous | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
business run by Kevin Knox. My case file has been growing since I first | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
investigated him. The latest complaint is about a puppy called | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
Austin. We fell in love with him straightaway, the girls absolutely | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
loved him. But within days of bringing him home from Kevin Knox's | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
kennels, Austin took a turn for the worse. I went with my husband, took | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
him to the vet's. She took one look at him, he was very limp, she took | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
one look and said he's very very poorly. The vet said Austin had | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
symptoms of an illness similar to the deadly and infectious | :12:13. | :12:20. | |
Parvovirus. We had to put hhm to sleep. How did that affect | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
everybody? Horrendous. We wdre just absolutely gutted, the girls were | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
heart broken, we were heartbroken. It was really hard. In all, how long | :12:27. | :12:36. | |
did you have Austin? Seven days but we only had him home with us for | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
five. Every sick dog sold by Ivy Leaf | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
Kennels means a family emothonally distraught. Mickey had so m`ny | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
illnesses, he had to be rehomed Bobby had to be shaved bald to treat | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
a severe skin infection. And Mollie's problems have left her | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
owners with vets' bills of lore than ?7,000. Customers say Kevin Knox | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
runs a pile 'em high, sell 'em cheap operation. There was loads of | :13:02. | :13:09. | |
different breeds, so alarm bells started going. Charlotte botght a | :13:10. | :13:11. | |
beagle, Tetley. Then later went back for another, | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
Petal, because she felt sorry for the dogs at Ivy Leaf. Both have had | :13:16. | :13:23. | |
a catalogue of problems. Tetley has digestion issues and he was full of | :13:24. | :13:28. | |
worms when we got him. Petal, she's had a lot of problems, weepx eyes, | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
she can't sniff or breathe properly. She has a dodgy defect in hdr paw. | :13:32. | :13:40. | |
So with all this evidence, surely Knox has been shut down. No? No In | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
fact, it's boom time for Kevin Knox. A bonanza. Local newspapers | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
advertise his puppies. Marc Abraham is a vet who campaigns against puppy | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
farms. He took a look at Knox's website. | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
There are many levels as to why this sort of website is disturbing. The | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
last thing you expect to sed from a responsible breeder is a shopping | :14:07. | :14:08. | |
basket icon. There's a Payp`l, there's a Google checkout. | :14:09. | :14:11. | |
Everything on this website hs about selling high volume puppies. In my | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
opinion, he's an irresponsible puppy seller. | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
We've asked Kevin Knox many times for an interview. This time, again, | :14:21. | :14:31. | |
Kevin Knox declined our offdr. He points out he's fully licensed as a | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
pet shop. He said that all his puppies are constantly monitored and | :14:37. | :14:38. | |
checked by a veterinary surgeon before they're handed over. Mr Knox | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
says that even in the most well regulated businesses, there are | :14:43. | :14:44. | |
certain unforeseen events that can and do happen. | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
So can Kevin Knox be stopped? Two Facebook campaign groups ard trying | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
to ask the authorities to step in. So what happens when people complain | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
to the RSPCA? They weren't willing to go in and investigate thdmselves. | :14:57. | :15:07. | |
They were wanting me to go hn. They asked me if I could pretend to buy a | :15:08. | :15:15. | |
puppy and secretly film it. So can't the council step in? Well, | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
Durham County Council actually gives Kevin Knox's business a helping | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
hand. By allowing him both ` dog breeders' licence. And a pet shop | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
licence. Durham County Council should be absolutely ashamed. Not | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
only is this going on in thdir own area, but they've been alerted to | :15:29. | :15:31. | |
it, they have been given intelligence about it. It's there | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
for all to see. I'm chasing the council and the RSPCA. So Kdvin Knox | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
is still trading. Meanwhile, what about my other problem ` Darran | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
Green? I've had a tip off that even the police have been helping his | :15:47. | :15:59. | |
business. This line of enquhry begins in the village of Toft Hill. | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
And a complaint about anothdr puppy. We got half way home before she | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
started bleeding from her rdar end and we went straight to the vets | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
with her. That puppy was Alhce the bassett hound. Bought in December | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
2012 for Sherrill's family. A dog that'll be visiting the vets for | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
life, not just for Christmas. She's such a tiny dog. She should be twice | :16:20. | :16:32. | |
the weight she is. She's got a chronic bowel condition. Solething I | :16:33. | :16:35. | |
suspect she was born with which has resulted in her not being able to | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
digest her food properly. Sherrill and her daughter Kirsty facd a | :16:40. | :16:41. | |
heartbreaking decision. Keep Alice on medication for the rest of her | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
life? Or have her put to sldep? If we can't get her where she's not | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
suffering, then it's no quality of life and as a responsible pdt owner | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
you think it's time you part with them. Absolutely furious. To see | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
that a puppy's in so much p`in, but that the adults around it are | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
suffering as well. So where did they get Alice? From Jodie Green. | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
Daughter of Consett dog dealer Darran Green. Sherrill met Darran | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
Green when she bought the ptppy Mr Darran Green, there lies another | :17:12. | :17:20. | |
tale! The man has attitude to burn! Sang the praises of his bredding of | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
rottweilers. Rottweilers? Hang on a minute? | :17:24. | :17:30. | |
Darran Green was always known to me for selling sick puppies. Btt this | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
is more his style nowadays. Steinhugle Rottweilers. Darran | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
Green's latest venture. What a combination! A breed dogged by a bad | :17:38. | :17:44. | |
reputation. And a man who's just the same. I've spoken with many | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
Rottweiler breeders across the north who have concerns. This bredder | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
would only talk anonymously. Up and down the country, most of them have | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
heard of Darran Green. The breed doesn't need people like hil. | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
Darran Green operates out of a modest terraced house in Ivdston | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
near Consett. And his website explains it all. He imports | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
Rottweilers from Germany. They're bred for security work. | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
They have a bigger temperamdnt if I can put like that. Most of them are | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
better suited outside, to an outside environment, in kennels and they | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
need to be worked. Where thdy perhaps aren't worked, aren't | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
exercised, that's when they become a ticking time bomb. We've he`rd | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
concerns Darran has sold dogs to people who aren't trained to handle | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
them. We've had about four or five people contact us, they've `ll been | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
with aggression/behavioural problems, unable to handle this | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
rottweiler from Darran Green. It's not the first time I've heard that. | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
Remember Sherrill Cockburn's chance meeting with Green? I was jtst | :18:50. | :18:58. | |
talking to him. And I had mx hand on the wall and the Rottweiler jumped | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
up and snacked at my fingers! He didn't tell it to bite me, no. It | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
just felt the need! I've bedn contacted by someone else who says | :19:06. | :19:09. | |
they were bitten by one of Darran Green's dogs. Two victims. @nd it | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
gets worse. I've got hold of an email. It's from an estate `gent who | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
went to the farm the Greens were renting. So they received a warm | :19:19. | :19:27. | |
welcome? On arrival at the property. I was told by Mrs Green not to get | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
out of the car as I would bd bitten by one of the dogs. With all the | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
recent headlines about dog `ttacks, this is worrying. But it's hard to | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
keep tabs on Darran Green's dogs because he's a proven liar. Nine | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
years ago, I'd heard he sold dogs with false registration doctments. | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
Well, now he has a criminal record. I've just been looking at the court | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
records and they make for interesting reading. Becausd in | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
2011, Darren Green pleaded guilty to three charges under the unf`ir | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
trading regulations. In a nttshell, he claimed his dogs were registered | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
with the Kennel Club when they weren't. Darran Green was fhned by | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
the court and banned from registering dogs with the Kdnnel | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
Club until 2018. So you might be surprised about what I've | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
discovered. I've had a tip off that worries me. Apparently, the family | :20:17. | :20:25. | |
business has been supported by not one but two police forces. Xears | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
after I investigated Darran and his step`son and got some aggro for my | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
troubles, Northumbria Policd actually paid Darran ?1,500 for | :20:32. | :20:39. | |
services to do with dogs. Then last year, after Darran and his wife had | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
criminal records over their dog dealing, Cleveland Police actually | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
bought the dog in this video. But they paid the Greens' daughter, | :20:46. | :20:51. | |
Jodie, ?900. Why would the police help the family business? Cleveland | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
Police say the welfare of their dogs is paramount and they carry out | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
checks to make sure dogs ard suitable for police work. | :21:00. | :21:01. | |
Northumbria Police said thex hired Darran Green once for whelphng | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
puppies, because there wasn't anyone else who could do it. They'd carried | :21:05. | :21:13. | |
out a visit here to his kennels at the time and told us the prdmises | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
and services offered at that particular time were deemed | :21:18. | :21:19. | |
satisfactory to the immediate needs of the organisation. But surely the | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
big question is should someone like Darran Green be allowed to sell | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
specialist security dogs? Thme to go undercover. This is James. He's a | :21:32. | :21:39. | |
wide boy who wants a dog to do a job. He has young kids. In short, | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
he's about the most inappropriate owner of a working Rottweildr you | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
can ever imagine. He's going to Darran Green's house with a view to | :21:49. | :21:50. | |
buying a puppy. Darran Green doesn't turn hhm away. | :21:51. | :22:05. | |
Instead, he shows James two bitches that are about to give birth. | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
Remember, Darran is banned from the Kennel Club. | :22:10. | :22:17. | |
He's not allowed to register any litters in his name. | :22:18. | :22:30. | |
James asks some more logical questions. | :22:31. | :22:42. | |
Yeah, perfect temperament then( ) he tells you it's OK if it kills you as | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
long as there's a good reason for killing you. | :22:48. | :23:08. | |
It's OK if it kills you as long as there's a good reason for khlling | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
you. David Davies is a formdr police dog handler and a professional dog | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
trainer. He knows how rottwdilers like Darran Green's should | :23:18. | :23:19. | |
Do you think, in this instance, Darran Green was acting responsibly? | :23:20. | :23:27. | |
I didn't hear any hard sell or anything like that, but I thought it | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
was appalling to be perfectly truthful. So if someone camd to you | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
and said they're after a dog to provide some security, but they have | :23:38. | :23:41. | |
kids in the house and, oh bx the way I know nothing about dogs, what | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
would you do? Ask them to go and buy a cat. Darran Green, Kevin Knox We | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
wanted to ask the authoritids what they are doing about these len. | :23:51. | :23:55. | |
Firstly, the RSPCA. We cont`cted them on the 5th of February. And the | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
sixth. The 10th. And 11th and 1 th. Until on the 17th, they told us they | :24:01. | :24:07. | |
wouldn't be interviewed. Thdy say anyone worried about dog brdeders | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
should go to the council first. The RSPCA told us, as long as pdople are | :24:12. | :24:15. | |
prepared to hand over their money for a puppy that has been bred with | :24:16. | :24:20. | |
profit in mind, it will continue. They said where they had evhdence | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
that animals are suffering, they will investigate. The RSPCA wouldn't | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
comment directly on either Knox or Green. They'd only comment on | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
individuals if they'd deciddd to prosecute. And when we asked them if | :24:34. | :24:38. | |
they expected members of thd public to secretly film for them, we were | :24:39. | :24:42. | |
stonewalled. They never answered the question. We also wanted an | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
interview with Durham Countx Council. We asked them on the fourth | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
February. On the fifth. On the 0th, the 11th and the 12th. On the 1 th, | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
they said they wouldn't spe`k with me. Instead, they too, sent a | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
statement. They told us Kevhn Knox is inspected every year to dnsure | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
that the conditions attached to the licences are being complied with. | :25:07. | :25:11. | |
They say they investigate every complaint about mis`selling or about | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
dogs that are ill and have `lways responded appropriately basdd on the | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
nature of the issue raised `nd evidence provided. They say their | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
records do not show large ntmbers of complaints about Knox or Grden. | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
Durham County Council brought the 2011 criminal charges against Darran | :25:27. | :25:36. | |
and his wife Heather. They've since advised him and his associates of | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
the legal responsibilities hn relation to selling animals to | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
ensure compliance with the Consumer Protection from Unfair Tradhng | :25:43. | :25:44. | |
Regulations In order for thd council to take action regarding alleged | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
breaches of the criminal law they would need to be in a posithon to | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
prove matters beyond reason`ble doubt. | :25:52. | :26:00. | |
Darran Green himself has always avoided our questions. So wd had no | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
choice but to catch him unawares. We've called Darran Green to a | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
meeting. He thinks he's going to be selling me some dogs. In fact, after | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
nine years of waiting, this will be the showdown. | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
I'm from BBC Television. I'l wondering why it is that yot are | :26:24. | :26:30. | |
involved in the selling of aggressive dogs? Never sold an | :26:31. | :26:38. | |
aggressive dog in my life. Never? Never. But you boast about how some | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
of your dogs are nasty, thex'd have you straightaway. I never s`y | :26:45. | :26:47. | |
anything like that. What about the Kennel Club registration ` xou're | :26:48. | :26:50. | |
banned, how can they be Kennel Club registered? Which dogs? The ones | :26:51. | :26:53. | |
you're selling to people. You're saying they're registered in your | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
name. Did I say that? Yeah. No, no. Your name or one of your falily | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
members' names. I didn't sax that, that's definitely not true. Isn t it | :27:02. | :27:09. | |
irresponsible to not ask questions...? What's irresponsible | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
is the fact that you try to hassle me, bombard me, cause me grhef for | :27:14. | :27:16. | |
having what is probably the most highly trained dogs in the TK. | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
Obviously, you're going to `ir something. Are you going to air in a | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
fair manner or do whatever xou've done in the past and make md look | :27:27. | :27:34. | |
the bad one? And finally he left me with some life advice. In ftture, be | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
a man. Just be a man in futtre. Ring me up and say, "Darran, can we have | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
a talk?" This is pathetic bdhaviour. The type of scumbags you ard. So we | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
did ring him up and asked, "Darran can we have a talk?" He declined our | :27:50. | :27:55. | |
offer of an interview. In the nine years I've been investigating this, | :27:56. | :27:58. | |
not once have any of the authorities agreed to be interviewed. Not the | :27:59. | :28:01. | |
council, not the police, not the RSPCA. Of course, I'll pass my | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
evidence to them ` again ` but the question is will they act? | :28:07. | :28:12. | |
On my blog, I've more on public bodies paid for by you and le who | :28:13. | :28:18. | |
seem ever more reluctant to answer my questions on camera. Fortunately, | :28:19. | :28:24. | |
I can always rely on you to come up with ideas and suggestions for the | :28:25. | :28:28. | |
topics we should cover. You'd be surprised how many stories start off | :28:29. | :28:32. | |
as a call or email from you. So keep them coming, contacts details are on | :28:33. | :28:38. | |
the blog. That brings us to the end of the show and the current series. | :28:39. | :28:42. | |
We'll be back a little later on in the year, so keep an eye out for us. | :28:43. | :28:47. | |
Until then from all the Inshde Out team here in the North East | :28:48. | :28:50. | |
andCumbria, take care and sde you soon. Till then from Sunderland | :28:51. | :28:51. | |
goodnight. Hello. The 92nd update. The Oscar | :28:52. | :29:12. | |
Pistorius trial has begun | :29:13. | :29:13. |