A Wembley man has been convicted of training almost a dozen fighting dogs at his one-bedroom basement flat.

Police raided the home of Akim Adelaja, 22, on September 7 and found 11 dogs kept in cramped conditions.

The kitchen of the Elms Lane address was covered in dog faeces, and officers from the Northwick Park Safer Neighbourhood Team, Brent council animal welfare and the RSPCA also seized a lot of dog strengthening equipment.

The 11 dogs seized by cops included an American Bulldog bitch with six puppies in a cage in the kitchen, a Mastiff with an injured eye in the bathroom, and two American Bulldogs and a Pitbull-type bitch in a rear bedroom.

They also found two writing pads with handwritten contracts, dog breeding plans, as well as heavy duty chains and weight pulling harnesses, and tyres used for dog strengthening exercises.

Last Wednesday, November 21, a PCSO saw Adelaja with two more dogs which were doing damage to trees in Butlers Green, Sudbury.

When called neither dog responded to Adelaja, and at one point circled both men with bared teeth.

Today at Brent Magistrates Court he was found guilty of Cops raided his home again last Friday and found two more bulldog type dogs, and more heavy-duty chains.

Sergeant Andy Lester of Northwick Park SNT said: “Akim Adelaja's care of these dogs was clearly insufficient, despite the store of reading material he had built up on the subject.

“To keep that many dogs in a small, one-bedroom, basement flat would have been obviously, to any normal individual, excessive.”

Today at Brent Magistrates Court he was found guilty after a three day trial of breeding and keeping fighting dogs, causing unecessary suffering to a protected animal, training animals to fight, and fire count of ensuring animal welfare.

He is due to be sentenced on Tuesday, December 16.