A woman who ran a puppy farm faces a huge ‘gangster tax’ bill after two of her partners-in-crime were found to have made over £600,000 from their cruel trade.

Last week Grace Banks, 29, of Gorton, was warned that she faces jail after being found guilty of animal neglect and fraud.

The 29-year-old was linked to the sale of eight suffering puppies - at a time when she was on bail for another offence of running a puppy farm with her brother, Julian King, 30, of Hyde, and his boyhood pal Peter Jones, 32, of Gorton.

In the earlier case, the trio sold 835 sick and dying puppies to families - after keeping the animals cramped in buckets. They used fake names, homes and even set up their own ‘pedigree registration’ company to con buyers who thought they were buying healthy puppies raised in a home environment.

At the time, King and Jones were already banned from keeping dogs.

Despite that, the pair, along with Banks, were taking weekly deliveries of dogs from Ireland.

Raids in 2012 and 2013 revealed Yorkshire terriers, huskies, West Highland terriers, pomeranians, Labradors, beagles, shih tzus, French bulldogs, cockapoos were being kept in distressing conditions at a ‘holding’ address in Stockport. The bodies of dead puppies - including a Yorkshire terrier slung in a wheelie bin - were found at the Marple Road address.

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Now King and Jones have appeared at Minshull Street Crown Court for Proceeds of Crime Act proceedings. Nicknamed ‘the gangster tax’, the proceedings allows the authorities to go after the assets of racketeers.

Jones has been found to have made £403,118.34 from illegally trading in puppies. At the moment, he has only £320 in ‘realisable assets’, in the form of cash seized by the authorities, and has been ordered to surrender that amount.

Julian King was found to have made £211,722.63 from selling puppies. He has been ordered to pay £10,733.27 - the amount found in a bank account frozen by the authorities.

Judge Jeffrey Lewis said each of the men 'remain liable for the balance', telling them the prosecution can return to court and enforce the debt, when they have the means to pay.

The amount former escort Grace Banks has made - and just how much of it is currently recoverable - will be revealed on May 27, when she is expected to appear in court for her POCA hearing.

Last year Banks - formerly known as Lily Cooper - was jailed and banned from keeping animals for life, alongside King and Jones, after a five-year RSPCA investigation that led to the raid on the puppy farm in Stockport.

Last week, following her release from a five-month jail sentence, she was prosecuted for fraud and further animal cruelty offences committed while on bail.

RSPCA inspectors found a dead puppy in the boot of her Mercedes when her Oldham home was raided in April 2015.

Despite using up to six aliases, Banks was tracked down by investigators after conned customers all described her preened eyebrows, pouting lips. She was also caught out by sending emails to customers from the same account she used for her escort agency work.

She now faces going back to jail - as well as a large ‘Gangster Tax’ bill for her course of offending.