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Topic: Lincoln Crown Court
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28 Aug 2007, 0 Comment(s)
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Following a 12-month undercover investigation by the BBC, a Lincolnshire man who posed as a veterinary surgeon over a number of years was sentenced to 12 months in prison at Lincoln Crown Court last week.
Leonard French, 69, from Tattershall Bridge, was secretly filmed selling unlicensed veterinary medicines to an undercover reporter from BBC Look North and administering medicines to a dog.
The BBC reported
that Mr French had been illegally importing veterinary medicines from Russia, France and the US and was said to have made £170,000 from their sale to dog owners, companies and hunts.
Following a 12-month undercover investigation by the BBC, a Lincolnshire man who posed as a veterinary surgeon over a number of years was sentenced to 12 months in prison at Lincoln Crown Court last week. Leonard French, 69, from Tattershall Bridge...
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