A man who abandoned his Rottweiler in his car on one of the hottest days of the year has been barred from owning a dog for the next ten years

Michael Haye, 39, of Fraser Road, Walthamstow, confessed to leaving his dog, Shay, in the car park when temperatures reached 38 degrees Celsius as he slept at a Premier Inn hotel in South Mimms.

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The alarm was raised by a passerby who observed the Rottweiler in the car in the middle of the day on Monday 18 July last year – a day when the Met Office issued its first high Red heat warning.