On Wednesday, Oct. 25th, puppy breeder Christopher Gorman of North Lanarkshire, Scotland was found guilty of abusing 11 dogs and killing two. He has now been issued a lifelong ban on owning animals of any kind, and ordered to pay a £2,600 (approximately $3,000) fine.
Gorman, an unlicensed pet shop owner, was caught on film in June 2016 by at least one witness and an undercover Scottish SPCA Inspector. Gorman, 54, kept 11 mastiffs confined to his tiny backgarden in squalid conditions, often without adequate access to food, water, and shelter. Shocking footage shows Gorman lunging violently at the dogs with a large piece of wood, and hitting several of them.
In Gorman’s home, two puppies were found dead; the cause of death has been reported as parvo virus, a canine illness that can prove fatal. An undercover SPCA Inspector said Gorman’s actions illustrated that his “priorities [laid] entirely in the profit that could be gained from selling on puppies to naïve new owners, rather than in the welfare of the dogs.”
Gorman’s most recent animal cruelty conviction is not his first. He had previously been banned from pet ownership for 10 years in relation to a court hearing he attended in July. It is unknown where the remainder of Gorman’s dogs are housed, as well as whether they will be put up for adoption following recovery.
Several countries have begun to crack down on for-profit animal breeders to prevent incidences of cruelty like Gorman’s and focus on the adoption of animals within shelters and volunteer organizations. The Scottish SPCA alone rescued and cared for 20,000 animals last year.
If you witness any act of animal cruelty, report the incident to your local animal shelter or SPCA as soon as possible. If you or your family is looking to add a furry new family member to your household, be sure to adopt from a reliable organization instead of buying from a breeder. You could very well be saving a life!
With the punishment they are getting is nothing that’s why they do it over and over again. People need to held accountable and charged accordingly not just a slap on the wrist.
Not too bad a sentence, it depends on how it is enforced. The day that all puppy-mills are banned, will be a day of celebration.
Where is the jail term?
There should not have been a second offense.
Who is going to watch this abuser? He will do it again if he gets the chance.
I would not hit him with a piece of wood but with an iron bar. Animal lovers that live in this area keep an eye on him. This silly fine will not stop him he must have made £1000’s over the last years.
Death by hanging!
Justice
Lifetime banning from own dogs? should be lifetime in prison
THIS GUY IS A DISGRACE TAE SCOTLAND.
Thank you for putting this article on L.f.T. This was big news in Scotland and so it should be.
yours for the Animals,
Berni&VAK.
Harsher penalties . Jail. Punishment by the whip.
The low life sadistic dog killer should have got a minimum of 10 years in prison and be kicked in the balls and left to die by fellow inmates and his name Added to An Animal Abuse register, which of course Scotland does not have. They do nothing about paedophilia committed by perverts in high places in Scotland so I suppose it would be expecting too much for them to give an appropriate sentence to the low life piece of animal abusing scum.
Banning is not enough. A fine is not enough. His freedom should be taken away. He is an abuser and these scum never change. He has a fixed evil, wicked and sadistic mindset. This is nothing to celebrate.
We need harsher sentencing for sadistic animal killing scum.
I hope that the SPCA will keep a very close eye on this man to make sure he does not get any another dogs, this man needs a hefty fine and jailed for a very long time, i hate animal abusers, these people are sick!!!!!
very good news !! this lifelong ban on owning animals should be applied to all owners, breeders or private owners, who mistreat the animals !!! France should take this as example !!!
Justice at last, but they should get jail time to
Why were the other dogs never found? Why was there no further investigation from the SPCA?
I would have preferred a lifetime jail sentence, but at least this is something.
Sometimes a lifetime ban & fine isn’t enough. An eye for an eye sounds so good!!
The fine is insufficient, more so considering he had a prior conviction. Not much of a deterrence to others too. It should be a custodial sentence (at least a month in jail) and a fine ten times the amount. If he can’t pay that, extra three months.
People that do horrible cruel things to animals should be punished severely. They should have ethical jurors to decide the penalty. In this country the creep would have gotten off easier than this person. I’m very sorry to say that, but that’s the way it is here. And people get worse all the time. I want to be a vigilante and take the law into my own hands. I’m sick and tired of these ugly perverts!
Some degree of justice. He needs to be housed in inadequate facilities himself and be beaten daily anfmd left yo due from exposure or disease. Whatever. He is the scum of tbe earth. A life for a life. Do unto others as they do into you. What goes around comes around.
Hold that SOB still while I luge at him and hit him with a stick…the size of a baseball bat!!!
We have 4 dogs one came from the shelter a corgi / chihuahua another came from my sister,said she found him at her front door a chow/lab, another from the streets that was saved from being hit by cars a very busy intersection a poodle /cocker, and the 4th was handed to me on the street that I almost hit a chihuahua and we love all of them. I also feed eleven cats every night at a neighbor hood church. I think I would go nuts if I did’t have any animals in my life.
What a sick individual, how was this allowed to go on for so long, does he not have neighbours???
I,M GLAD HE WAS CAUGHT BUT THE PUNISHMENT DIDN,T FIT THE CRIME. HE SHOULD HAVE GONE TO JAIL FOR A FEW UEARS AT LEAST.
AND AS FAR AS NOT BEING ALLOWED TO OWN MORE DOGS, WELL WE ALL KNOW HOW THAT WILL WORK. IT WON,T.!!
That’s fantastic that he was banned!
Don’t go lenient on the likes of this sorry excuse for decency.
IS THAT IT – FOR A SECOND OFFENSE ??? WHEN ARE THE COURTS OF DIFFERENT COUNTRIES GOING TO STOP SLAPPING WRITS FOR ANIMAL ABUSE ? JAIL TIME and MUCH BIGGER FINES – COMBINED WITH = REMOVAL OF RIGHT TO DRIVE, TAKING AWAY OF PASSPORTS, VERY MANY HOURS OF COMMUNITY SERVICE IN A BRIGHT COLORED VEST, ETC.
I agree..this is a joke for a penalty. He’ll just do it again, like he did after the first time he was “prosecuted”. There are repeat shoplifters sitting in jail..but not this guy. Yeah..that makes sense.
Justice to some degree.Many thanks to all involved making these consequences transpire. Hopefully if said individual does get another animal it’s reported.
The Galarneau Family