How did monster 'devil dogs' arrive at Ulster farm?

Questions were being asked today about how a terrifying breed of illegal fighting dogs got into Northern Ireland.

Last weekend the USPCA swooped on a farm near Ballymoney and seized 10 bandogs.

This is the first time the breed has been found in Ulster.

The raid, which also involved Ballymoney Borough Council and the PSNI, took two adults and a litter of eight young bandogs, nicknamed 'devil' dogs, from the Stranocum farm following a tip-off from the public.

The dogs are a dangerous cross between a pit bull terrier and an English mastiff and can grow to the size of an Alsatian weighing seven or eight stone.