Important Rescue message

by **-Ian-** Fri Dec 26 2014, 12:50

This message is untended for all our Rescue center friends.

It has come to the attention of one of our members that there are a couple that are scamming people by offering to rescue Dogs. The information below has been put together with the Police and the statements verified as true.

*Now possibly residing in Cheshire*

PLEASE BE WARNED -
Rescues have been victims of these people after entrusting them with the care of their Rescue Dogs. They have found the dogs to either have been ruthlessly placed in pounds, destroyed or they have simply disappeared.

Other people have been defrauded of hundreds of pounds and one has had her identity stolen, enabling Kerrie Simmons to carry out identity theft for illegal purposes.

Kerrie Simmons and Adrian Davies have no empathy for dogs or for people, viewing both as targets to be exploited for their own ends.

Despite all best efforts to obtain Police involvement, nothing has yet been done to our knowledge.
Please take time to read the victims' statements and be warned. Note – Hereafter –
KS = Kerrie Simmons
AD = Adrian Davies

Rescue Statement of: Yvonne Parkins, of Pembrokeshire Staffies
Website: www.pembrokeshirestaffies.webs.com
Tel: xxxxxxx
Email: xxx@aol.com

Bobby was a young staffie/cross who came to me with very bad behaviour problems; in particular he had an acute fear of men. Bobby had been with Pembrokeshire Staffies for some months and there had been no interest. KS offered to foster Bobby for me and I was relieved that Bobby was finally going to be given a chance at home-life.

On 21st May 2014 I took Bobby to meet KS and AD at their home in Pembrey, and Bobby and AS bonded straight away and it was an absolute joy to see and, if I had not seen it with my own eyes, I would never have believed it. On the following day I transferred £400.00 into KS's bank account for behavioural classes for Bobby and food.

I remember after a few weeks KS said that Bobby was going nowhere and that they would like to adopt Bobby. I was so happy and grateful that Bobby had found his wonderful forever home.

On 26th May 2014 I transferred £150 into KS’s bank account to ‘rescue’ staffie puppies. The police tried unsuccessfully to obtain information from KS about these pups.

Again, on the 14th August 2014, I sent to KS the sum of £140.00 for their further costs for the care of Bobby. We kept in touch by phone and by email and KS told me that Bobby was enjoying his swims in the lake when he went away with AD and, after my repeated requests over many weeks, KS sent to me a photo of what was described as 'Bobby swimming'. The photo was clearly not Bobby and this alarmed me greatly.
I attended KS and AD's home but Bobby was not there, and KS told me that he was
away with AS.

At the same time as this, rumours were circulating about KS’s and AD’s suspicious activities.

I was becoming distraught for Bobby but was still being told by KS that Bobby was fine but was still away with AD. I now know that this was not the case.

On the 17th June 2014, Bobby was collected by Brendan Davies, Dog Warden for Carmarthenshire County Council from an address in Llanelli and taken to Swansea Pound. Bobby was destroyed after serving his statutory seven days on the 23rd June.

This was because Brendan found Bobby 'terrible with other dogs' and kennel aggressive and informed me of this only after he had been destroyed, and only then when I telephoned him. He said that he was not a dog that could be re homed and so did not offer him to 'pound pullers' and said that he could not leave the pound because he was too dangerous.

It should be noted that I had not changed Bobby’s microchip and he was chipped to South Gloucestershire Pound, who were never notified of his impending destruction.

So, with no chance given to re-home or foster him, Bobby's fate was sealed. Bobby's death came as a great shock since KS had maintained to the last that Bobby was away with her partner AS.

I am heartbroken.

The police at Burry Port have been involved in the case.

The contents of my statement are true to the best of my belief and knowledge. I have no objection to the distribution of my statement.

Yvonne Parkins

Rescue Statement of: Sarah Horner, of Lancashire and Belle Vue Retired Greyhound Trust (RGT) (was with North West RGT when KS was convicted of stealing her identity to obtain prescription drugs)
Tel: xxxxxx
Website: www.lancashirergt.com
Email: xxx@yahoo.co.uk

Four/ five years ago KS contacted NWRGT to enquire about rehoming a greyhound. I carried out a homecheck, and felt she would make a great owner and invited her to come to the kennels to meet the dogs. Kerrie fostered one of our long stayers for some time and I got to know Kerrie over a period of months. Everything seemed fine and there were no problems with the foster placement until I received a phone call out of the blue from Wirral NHS informing me that a lady called Kerrie Simmonds had stolen my identity and obtained prescription drugs posing as me at the GP. I immediately made an excuse to get the foster greyhound back and identified KS from CCTV footage, she was arrested shortly after and I was informed that multiple prescriptions were found in her home. I gave statements and at her court hearing she was charged on 6 counts of fraud, one of them relating to the theft of my identity.

The contents of my statement are true to the best of my knowledge and belief. I have no objection to my statement being distributed.
Signed

Sarah Horner
Lancashire and Belle Vue Retired Greyhound Trust
xxx

Statement of: Tina Turvey, Transporter for Homeless Hounds in Lancashire. Tel: xxx
Email: xxx@aol.com

KS asked if I would collect a greyhound for her that was going to be put to sleep in the Pound and transport him to her in Wales. KS contacted Homeless Hounds in Lancashire who were the pound pullers, after she had secured Rescue back-up as a foster carer from Kim Taylor of New Forest Animal Rescue, .

Transport was arranged and I picked Jake up from Aspen Valley Kennels in Oswaldtwistle on Monday 18th August 2014 and dropped him off at KS's rented property at approximately 10pm the same day. She said he was to be her seventh dog, but straight away shut him in her wet room on his own and ushered me out of the house saying it was late and she wanted to go to bed.

I next heard from KS on the morning of 20th August, when she rang to inform me she had taken Jake to Alpha Vets in Burry Port, they had scanned him, and found a microchip at the base of his tail and he had been flagged up on the system as reported lost. She stated that as the vets knew her well they had allowed her to take Jake home with her while they contacted the owners to arrange got collection of Jake. Upon checking with Alpha Vets, they confirmed she had not been to see them.

I was asked by Kim Taylor to visit Kerrie's house to pick Jake up to take him to her own vets for a general health check and so that verification could be sought regarding the microchip.

On my contact with KS, she said that she would not be in for Jake's vet appointment, as she herself was going out and a taxi had been booked. However I decided to attend KS's home, in any event, and when I arrived at her home she was at home and eventually opened the door. She told me I could not take Jake as one of her own dogs was ill and she was too upset about it. I said if it was nothing to do with Jake then maybe it would be better to take him so she could concentrate on her ill dog. The door was then closed on me.

I contacted Kim (the RBU) and picked her up from her home as she wanted to see Jake and check he was OK. Kerrie refused to open the door and actually called the police, reporting to them that we were harassing her, calling her names, and threatening her. The police entered her property and eventually ascertained KS had actually contacted the Dog Warden on the previous day (less than 12 hours after I left Jake with her) and informed him her boyfriend had found him as a stray on the railway line and asked for him to be collected and taken to the pound (Greenfields) in Swansea.

Kim eventually got Jake back from Greenfields on the 21st August after providing documentation to prove she was the RBU and responsible for him.

The contents of my statement are true to the best of my knowledge and belief. I have no objection to my statement being distributed.

Tina Turvey

Statement of: Angela Wood
Tel: xxx
Email: xxx@yahoo.co.uk

In December 2013 I sent to KS £200.00 by post office transfer as a deposit to secure a rented property for her in Pembrey, where KS lived. Once I arrived at the property to move in it was already occupied and I was obliged to live with KS. I sent emails and text messages to the landlord but excuses were made and the move never happened.

At the end of March 2014 I moved into my own rented property, having reported the incident to the police.

In the following weeks I gave several hundred pounds to Kerrie for vets bills for rescue dogs and for transporting dogs and as a loan. It appears that all this money was kept by KS for her own use.

In June 2014 I became suspicious of KS and challenged her about the £200.00. KS
finally admitted that AD had set up a false email address and mobile phone number and he was the non existent landlord. KS went to the police to make a statement to this effect, AD was questioned and later KS retracted her statement.

My passport was stolen from my house and this was reported to the police. Just hours before KS and AD left Pembrey to a destination as yet unknown, My passport was later put through my letter box.

The contents of my statements are true to the best of my knowledge and belief. I have no objection to my statement being distributed.

Angela Wood

Statement of Alpa Vets
Burry Port

While in Pembrey Kerrie set up an account for S.N.A.P. a non-existent rescue organisation with Alpha Vets in Burry Port.

According to Sam Graham of Rescued Racers, Kerrie owes 'a substantial sum'. The Debt Collection Agency has been informed but Alpha Vets are doubtful that they will see any money.

Statement of Rescued Racers
Swansea

K.S. and A.D. were volunteers for the charity and used it as a respectable front to their activities by attending car boot sales on behalf of Rescued Racers but the charity never saw the money.

Statement of Kimberley Plant
Tel: xxx

Bobby, a staffie boy, who survived a fire at his home was given by his owner to Kimberley Plant to rehome. He was subsequently fostered for several months and had two short epileptic fits during this time.

On 4th December 2013 Bobby was taken to a vet. Please find Medical Report attached and a couple of days later on the 6th was transported to K.S and A.D. to be fostered. KS claimed to have contact with someone knowledgeable about epilepsy.
Two days later on the 6th Bobby was purportedly taken by KS to Alpha Vets in Burry Port, who detected a brain tumour. It should be noted that Alpha Vets do not possess MRI equipment.

Again on the 9th Bobby was taken by KS to Alpha Vets and euthanised because he was 'fitting all the time'.

KS had no authority to have Bobby destroyed since he was not her dog and defended her decision by saying that he had a brain tumour.

It has not been possible to obtain a Medical Report from Alpha Vets. It is hoped that the RSPCA will obtain one in due course.

The contents of my statements true to the best of my knowledge and beliefs and I have no objection to my statement being made public

Kim Plant