(Warning...gross) Four Get Jail for Selling Foul Poultry

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Sep 19, 11:38 AM (ET)

LONDON (AP) - Four members of a gang led by a businessman nicknamed " Maggot

Pete " were sentenced to prison Friday for selling condemned poultry to

supermarkets, schools and hospitals across Britain.

 

Prosecutors said David Lawton, 55; Robert Mattock, 59; George Allen, 47; and

Gary Drewett, 33, were part of a group that bought poultry carcasses that

had been declared unfit for human consumption, stored them at the

rat-infested premises of Denby Poultry in Denby, central England and then

sold the meat on.

 

The men had pleaded guilty to fraud charges for recycling 450 tons of

chicken and turkey - which in most cases had been deemed unfit even for pet

food - into the human food chain. Some of it ended up in products such as

spreads and pates sold by major supermarket chains.

 

A judge at Nottingham Crown Court gave the men sentences of between 15

months and 4 years and 3 months. A fifth man received a suspended sentence.

 

Judge Richard Benson told the defendants they had committed " a wicked

fraud. "

 

" If you had been dealing in Class A drugs rather than in chicken, then the

sentences you would be receiving would be in double figures, " he said. " The

people who consume drugs know the risks involved. Your victims didn't. "

 

The owner of Denby Poultry, Peter " Maggot Pete " Roberts, was convicted in

his absence at an earlier trial. Police say they believe he has fled to

continental Europe.

 

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20030919/D7TLI61O1.html

 

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[Guest guest]

#1. I love that killer name " maggot pete " ! *lol*

 

#2. Supermarkets bought it and made pate from it?

Well, I would think the market buyers would be able to

tell if the chicken was rotten and maggot covered before

cooking it up into a pate, yes?

 

#3. People shouldn't be eating chicken anyway. Ick

 

~ feral ~

 

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they

cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less

because they have no words.

~ Anna Sewell, writer (1820-1878)

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, " _- matrixenos -_ " <

matrixenos@h...> wrote:

> Sep 19, 11:38 AM (ET)

> LONDON (AP) - Four members of a gang led by a businessman nicknamed

" Maggot

> Pete " were sentenced to prison Friday for selling condemned poultry

to

> supermarkets, schools and hospitals across Britain.

>

> Prosecutors said David Lawton, 55; Robert Mattock, 59; George

Allen, 47;

and

> Gary Drewett, 33, were part of a group that bought poultry

carcasses that

> had been declared unfit for human consumption, stored them at the

> rat-infested premises of Denby Poultry in Denby, central England

and then

> sold the meat on.

>

> The men had pleaded guilty to fraud charges for recycling 450 tons

of

> chicken and turkey - which in most cases had been deemed unfit even

for

pet

> food - into the human food chain. Some of it ended up in products

such as

> spreads and pates sold by major supermarket chains.

[Guest guest]

" #3. People shouldn't be eating chicken anyway. Ick

 

~ feral ~ "

 

kinda the point of the thing...if yer still indecisive on vegetarianism,

then that is one of many articles that will perhaps persuade ya. maybe

filthy maggot pete shoulda sampled that ole pate to experience his lovely

work...nasty. I bet he's a looker too, lol. s.

 

 

 

 

 

 

----Original Message Follows----

" Feral " <terebinthus

 

 

#1. I love that killer name " maggot pete " ! *lol*

 

#2. Supermarkets bought it and made pate from it?

Well, I would think the market buyers would be able to

tell if the chicken was rotten and maggot covered before

cooking it up into a pate, yes?

 

#3. People shouldn't be eating chicken anyway. Ick

 

~ feral ~

 

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they

cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less

because they have no words.

~ Anna Sewell, writer (1820-1878)

~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~*~~~~~~~>

, " _- matrixenos -_ " <

matrixenos@h...> wrote:

> Sep 19, 11:38 AM (ET)

> LONDON (AP) - Four members of a gang led by a businessman nicknamed

" Maggot

> Pete " were sentenced to prison Friday for selling condemned poultry

to

> supermarkets, schools and hospitals across Britain.

>

> Prosecutors said David Lawton, 55; Robert Mattock, 59; George

Allen, 47;

and

> Gary Drewett, 33, were part of a group that bought poultry

carcasses that

> had been declared unfit for human consumption, stored them at the

> rat-infested premises of Denby Poultry in Denby, central England

and then

> sold the meat on.

>

> The men had pleaded guilty to fraud charges for recycling 450 tons

of

> chicken and turkey - which in most cases had been deemed unfit even

for

pet

> food - into the human food chain. Some of it ended up in products

such as

> spreads and pates sold by major supermarket chains.

 

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