Cockfighting gang banned from keeping birds

A "sickening" cockfighting gang has been banned for life from keeping birds after detectives found a blood-spattered fighting pit at a home in east London.

A "sickening" UK cockfighting gang has been banned for life from keeping birds after detectives found a blood-spattered fighting pit at a home in east London.

Police and RSPCA officers raided an address in Ilford and disrupted a suspected organised cockfight in an outbuilding.