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video. Up Next. A young mum has been found guilty of abandoning dozens of puppies in a caravan and helping to orchestrate an international puppy smuggling ring.
Image Credit: Metro [The puppies are discovered in a dilapidated caravan, owned by Micaela Anderson-Letts, 35. Release date ? January 8, 2025. A woman who abandoned a dog and 35 puppies in a dilapidated caravan has been sentenced in court. Police were alerted to the vehicle on an industrial estate in Lister Road, Eastbourne, on 26 July 2021, by a member of public who was concerned for the animals? welfare. Officers attended along with RSPCA inspectors. Upon forcing entry to the caravan, they discovered a mix of Labradors, Dachshunds and French Bulldogs living in a state of squalor. Investigating officer, PC Marie Jenner, of the Sussex Police Rural Crime Team, explained: ?The whole floor was covered in faeces and urine soaked cardboard. There were exposed wires, nails and screws, and broken pieces of wood and tools throughout. The conditions were completely uninhabitable?. CCTV enquiries revealed the caravan had been towed to the location at approximately 3am that morning by a 4x4 vehicle. Checks were conducted which showed the registered owner was Micaela Anderson-Letts, 35, of The Rowans, Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex. Anderson-Letts pleaded guilty to the offence at an earlier hearing and appeared for sentencing at Kingston Crown Court on Tuesday 7 January. She was sentenced to 24 months? imprisonment, suspended for 24 months. She was also given an animal banning order which lasts until further notice, and ordered to carry out 300 hours of unpaid work.]
Micaela Anderson-Letts, 35, played a pivotal role in the organisation which smuggled pups across the Channel from countries including Poland and France. Dozens of the dogs were kept in ‘disgusting’ conditions, forcing them to survive by feeding on each other.
Image Credit: Metro [The puppies are discovered in a dilapidated caravan, owned by Micaela Anderson-Letts, 35. Release date ? January 8, 2025. A woman who abandoned a dog and 35 puppies in a dilapidated caravan has been sentenced in court. Police were alerted to the vehicle on an industrial estate in Lister Road, Eastbourne, on 26 July 2021, by a member of public who was concerned for the animals? welfare. Officers attended along with RSPCA inspectors. Upon forcing entry to the caravan, they discovered a mix of Labradors, Dachshunds and French Bulldogs living in a state of squalor. Investigating officer, PC Marie Jenner, of the Sussex Police Rural Crime Team, explained: ?The whole floor was covered in faeces and urine soaked cardboard. There were exposed wires, nails and screws, and broken pieces of wood and tools throughout. The conditions were completely uninhabitable?. CCTV enquiries revealed the caravan had been towed to the location at approximately 3am that morning by a 4x4 vehicle. Checks were conducted which showed the registered owner was Micaela Anderson-Letts, 35, of The Rowans, Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex. Anderson-Letts pleaded guilty to the offence at an earlier hearing and appeared for sentencing at Kingston Crown Court on Tuesday 7 January. She was sentenced to 24 months? imprisonment, suspended for 24 months. She was also given an animal banning order which lasts until further notice, and ordered to carry out 300 hours of unpaid work.]
Puppies were found in locations in Surrey and Sussex after being smuggled into the UK with fake animal passports – which risked bringing rabies into the country. In a caravan in Eastbourne, a large number of dogs were found abandoned. Dozens more were found living in their own excrement.
Image Credit: Metro [The puppies are discovered in a dilapidated caravan, owned by Micaela Anderson-Letts, 35. Release date ? January 8, 2025. A woman who abandoned a dog and 35 puppies in a dilapidated caravan has been sentenced in court. Police were alerted to the vehicle on an industrial estate in Lister Road, Eastbourne, on 26 July 2021, by a member of public who was concerned for the animals? welfare. Officers attended along with RSPCA inspectors. Upon forcing entry to the caravan, they discovered a mix of Labradors, Dachshunds and French Bulldogs living in a state of squalor. Investigating officer, PC Marie Jenner, of the Sussex Police Rural Crime Team, explained: ?The whole floor was covered in faeces and urine soaked cardboard. There were exposed wires, nails and screws, and broken pieces of wood and tools throughout. The conditions were completely uninhabitable?. CCTV enquiries revealed the caravan had been towed to the location at approximately 3am that morning by a 4x4 vehicle. Checks were conducted which showed the registered owner was Micaela Anderson-Letts, 35, of The Rowans, Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex. Anderson-Letts pleaded guilty to the offence at an earlier hearing and appeared for sentencing at Kingston Crown Court on Tuesday 7 January. She was sentenced to 24 months? imprisonment, suspended for 24 months. She was also given an animal banning order which lasts until further notice, and ordered to carry out 300 hours of unpaid work.]
Some of the poor animals were fed the remains of pigs kept by Anderson-Letts at her home in Surbiton. Pigs, chicks and hens were forced to compete for food leaving them injured, starved and without water in soaring summer temperatures during the first national covid lockdown.
Police found thousands in cash, receipts and fake documents belonging to Anderson-Letts. She was involved in what police described as a ‘well-structured, organised enterprise’ which was a ‘money-making enterprise’ which had no regard for the welfare of animals.
![[The puppies are discovered in a dilapidated caravan, owned by Micaela Anderson-Letts, 35. Release date ? January 8, 2025. A woman who abandoned a dog and 35 puppies in a dilapidated caravan has been sentenced in court. Police were alerted to the vehicle on an industrial estate in Lister Road, Eastbourne, on 26 July 2021, by a member of public who was concerned for the animals? welfare. Officers attended along with RSPCA inspectors. Upon forcing entry to the caravan, they discovered a mix of Labradors, Dachshunds and French Bulldogs living in a state of squalor. Investigating officer, PC Marie Jenner, of the Sussex Police Rural Crime Team, explained: ?The whole floor was covered in faeces and urine soaked cardboard. There were exposed wires, nails and screws, and broken pieces of wood and tools throughout. The conditions were completely uninhabitable?. CCTV enquiries revealed the caravan had been towed to the location at approximately 3am that morning by a 4x4 vehicle. Checks were conducted which showed the registered owner was Micaela Anderson-Letts, 35, of The Rowans, Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex. Anderson-Letts pleaded guilty to the offence at an earlier hearing and appeared for sentencing at Kingston Crown Court on Tuesday 7 January. She was sentenced to 24 months? imprisonment, suspended for 24 months. She was also given an animal banning order which lasts until further notice, and ordered to carry out 300 hours of unpaid work.]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_235341994-2b29.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
![[The puppies are discovered in a dilapidated caravan, owned by Micaela Anderson-Letts, 35. Release date ? January 8, 2025. A woman who abandoned a dog and 35 puppies in a dilapidated caravan has been sentenced in court. Police were alerted to the vehicle on an industrial estate in Lister Road, Eastbourne, on 26 July 2021, by a member of public who was concerned for the animals? welfare. Officers attended along with RSPCA inspectors. Upon forcing entry to the caravan, they discovered a mix of Labradors, Dachshunds and French Bulldogs living in a state of squalor. Investigating officer, PC Marie Jenner, of the Sussex Police Rural Crime Team, explained: ?The whole floor was covered in faeces and urine soaked cardboard. There were exposed wires, nails and screws, and broken pieces of wood and tools throughout. The conditions were completely uninhabitable?. CCTV enquiries revealed the caravan had been towed to the location at approximately 3am that morning by a 4x4 vehicle. Checks were conducted which showed the registered owner was Micaela Anderson-Letts, 35, of The Rowans, Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex. Anderson-Letts pleaded guilty to the offence at an earlier hearing and appeared for sentencing at Kingston Crown Court on Tuesday 7 January. She was sentenced to 24 months? imprisonment, suspended for 24 months. She was also given an animal banning order which lasts until further notice, and ordered to carry out 300 hours of unpaid work.]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_235341862-51bb.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
![[The puppies are discovered in a dilapidated caravan, owned by Micaela Anderson-Letts, 35. Release date ? January 8, 2025. A woman who abandoned a dog and 35 puppies in a dilapidated caravan has been sentenced in court. Police were alerted to the vehicle on an industrial estate in Lister Road, Eastbourne, on 26 July 2021, by a member of public who was concerned for the animals? welfare. Officers attended along with RSPCA inspectors. Upon forcing entry to the caravan, they discovered a mix of Labradors, Dachshunds and French Bulldogs living in a state of squalor. Investigating officer, PC Marie Jenner, of the Sussex Police Rural Crime Team, explained: ?The whole floor was covered in faeces and urine soaked cardboard. There were exposed wires, nails and screws, and broken pieces of wood and tools throughout. The conditions were completely uninhabitable?. CCTV enquiries revealed the caravan had been towed to the location at approximately 3am that morning by a 4x4 vehicle. Checks were conducted which showed the registered owner was Micaela Anderson-Letts, 35, of The Rowans, Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex. Anderson-Letts pleaded guilty to the offence at an earlier hearing and appeared for sentencing at Kingston Crown Court on Tuesday 7 January. She was sentenced to 24 months? imprisonment, suspended for 24 months. She was also given an animal banning order which lasts until further notice, and ordered to carry out 300 hours of unpaid work.]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_235342029-0487.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
