CONVICTED (2024) | Craig William Halls, born December 1973, of 101 Bessell Lane, Stapleford, Nottingham NG9 7BX – ran unlicensed boarding kennels where customers’ dogs were starved and kept in filth.

Crraig Halls, a co-director alongside Liam Christopher Reynolds (born December 1991) of Stapleford Boarding Kennels Limited, told owners he was keeping their pets in a luxury kennel was actually starving dogs in locked cages that were covered in their own poo and urine.

Halls, who in 2012 faced murder charges alongside others until the trial collapsed, illegally ran Stapleford Luxury Boarding Kennels on Bessell Lane without a license for years but the grim nature of the facility was only discovered in August 2023.

Nottinghamshire Police were deployed to the kennels over the Bank Holiday weekend 2023 after owners became concerned that they could not contact Halls to collect their dogs.

Officers found the dogs had been locked in their kennels for days and had not been checked on or given food and water.

They had been left to sit in their own mess, with many showing visible signs of ill health such as weight loss and matted fur.

Officers from Beeston Police Station and the RSPCA successfully reunited the dogs with their owners, with workers from the animal welfare charity also removing Halls’ own neglected dogs.

Halls was then prosecuted by Broxtowe Borough Council for operating without a licence and by the RSPCA for animal neglect.

In court, he pleaded guilty to two offences of causing unnecessary suffering to dogs and to operating a commercial dog boarding kennels without a licence in Stapleford, between March and August 2023.

Sentencing | 26-week custodial sentence, suspended for 18 months; a total of £1,500 costs Indefinitely banned from owning, keeping, dealing and transporting any animals.

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