Rogue Traders

Matt Allwright and Dan Penteado are hunting and confronting more rogues. They investigate pet shops and dog breeders who sell sick puppies. The Rogue Traders team go undercover to buy three puppies from establishments which have been reported to the RSPCA or trading standards. One of the puppies cost 350 pounds and was bought as a pedigree King Charles spaniel. But within a few days it falls ill with Parvo virus, a severe intestinal infection, and has to be put down. Matt and the team reveal that in many cases, the paperwork is inadequate to prove a puppy's pedigree, or that it has been properly vaccinated. One of the dogs purchased by the Rogue Traders team had a docked tail, a procedure which was made illegal in England, Scotland and Wales in 2007. When Matt confronts one puppy farm, the breeder attempts to hold the team captive. It takes a visit by the police to get them released.

Matt Allwright and Dan Penteado are on the trail of two companies who make it their business to lie to their customers. There's the plumbing firm where time really is money; they drag out their work, waste your time and charge you for the privilege. Then there's the airport meet and greet company who promise to look after your car while you go on holiday, but drive it like they've been watching too much Top Gear and leave it unsecured on an industrial estate. And when Matt catches up with them, the company boss reveals more than most, giving Matt the Full Monty..

A double-bill of roguery in an hour-long Rogue Traders. Matt Allwright and sidekick Dan Penteado witness some hair-raising moments with a chainsaw as rogue tree surgeons get to work in Wales. Can he put a halt to their boyish abandon and reckless disregard for health and safety? Plus, a TV aerial fitter uses dirty tactics to get a customer to buy a new aerial and television they don't need, but Matt has a neat trick up his sleeve to catch the rogues red-handed. In Bradford, they get a pump-action super-soaking of lies from a dodgy salesman who tries to hoodwink them into parting with thousands of pounds for a roof-sealing product they just do not need. After the company gives the same pack of lies at a house in Manchester, it is time for Matt to confront them. Over in Great Yarmouth, a patio-cleaning rogue has masterminded a corner-cutting plan just to rip the team off. He makes a complete pig's ear of their driveway so Matt decides it is time for a word with the rogue, and cops a wheelbarrow-load of filthy language for his trouble.

Matt Allwright and sidekick Dan Penteado reveal how their investigation into a rogue damp proofing company led to the successful prosecution of a ruthless criminal gang who had been ripping off the elderly for millions of pounds. They follow the money trail from Britain to where the criminal mastermind was hiding out in Portugal, and discover that behind the luxury lifestyle there was something far more sinister.