Salford Woman Joan Higgins Tagged For Illegal Goldfish Sale Is Freed
JOAN Higgins was at Manchester’s Minshall Street Crown Court with her son Mark. It was he who had sold a teenager a goldfish at his mother’s Major Pets in Sale. Trafford Council had used the 15-year-old boy to make a test purchase of the goldfish. (The Mail said he was 14.)
Today judge Adrian Smith ordered the removal of an electronic tag placed on the 66-year-old great-grandmother. When her son sold the fish to the 15-year-old boy and failed to tell him how to care for it or cook it, Joan Higgins was nicked.
She was brought before the Beak and ordered to abide by a 6pm to 6am curfew and tagged.
An animal welfare officer arrived in the store and spotted a cockatiel that on closer inspection was found to have a broken leg, eye problems and a distended stomach. It was put down.
What happened to the fish is not said. But he thought to be in a batter plaice…
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