Perth businesses and customers have rallied to mark the end of an era as Martin’s Fruit Bazaar on South Methven Street closed its doors for the final time this week.
08.06.2023 - 10:15 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A pet-owner has been banned from keeping animals for 10 years after several dead snakes were found piled on top of one another in cramped tanks. An RSPCA inspector described the garage where the snakes were being kept as having a 'strong smell of death', CheshireLive reports.
Vincent Parkes, of Adlington Drive, Northwich, left a number of large pythons 'to deteriorate over weeks to months' without water and adequate heating inside vivariums that were too small. Although six of the snakes were rescued - one of which later perished - several were already dead 'lying on top of each other' in one of the tanks.
Parkes, 34, who had been keeping the snakes in a garage at his sister’s home in the Leftwich area of Northwich, was sentenced at Chester Magistrates’ Court last month. He was handed a suspended prison sentence and banned from owning animals for 10 years. RSPCA inspectors Naomi Morris and Nadine Pengilly attended the garage on December 3, 2021, and found several snakes had perished in two of 16 vivariums that were crammed inside.
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The court heard that while the inspectors were at the property, Parkes ran off with a large plastic tub in which he appeared to have put the dead snakes in. Inspector Morris said: "The tanks were around 8x2ft and there was no water in any of them.
"The wiring looked jumbled up and although the heat was on all of these tanks were plugged into extension leads that ran off one cable attached to the house. I had never seen an electrical set-up like this before and was concerned about its safety.
"The doors of the garage were hanging off the frame, which had come away from the brickwork so the tanks would have been
Perth businesses and customers have rallied to mark the end of an era as Martin’s Fruit Bazaar on South Methven Street closed its doors for the final time this week.
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