Yahoo News Gloucester councillor who ran illegal puppy farm ordered to pay £30k to council for legal costs
Former Conservative councillor Alastair Chambers, who ran an illegal puppy farm, has been ordered to pay £30,000 in costs to Gloucester City Council.
Alastair Chambers, of Manor Farm Way, Quedgeley, pleaded guilty on June 30, 2022, to two offences under the Animal Welfare Act of breeding dogs without a licence and selling pets without a licence between June 2020 and May 2021.
More than 25 dogs were found when his farm was raided by police in July 2020. Chambers was disqualified from dealing with animals including transporting them for ten years in December last year and was ordered in June to pay £49,823.36.
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The confiscation order, under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, was made by Gloucester Crown Court Judge Ian Lawrie on June 12. And he was ordered by Judge Lawrie on October 16 to pay the council’s legal costs of £30,000 over three years.
Chambers, who now leads the Community Independent group at North Warehouse and sits as an ‘Independent Conservative’ at Gloucestershire County Council, was sentenced on December 20 last year to an 18 month community order with 150 hours unpaid work to be undertaken within 12 months and ten days rehabilitation activity.
Probation made an application to revoke Chamber’s community order on good progress and it was revoked on October 25. Chambers previously said he did not mistreat the dogs and is allowed to keep all of his pet animals.
