As per recent reports, it has been revealed that a couple who recently sold a monkey that was having around seven bone fractures and was seriously in a life-threatening situation to a pensioner.

The monkey was sold for about £650. As a result of their insane work, the couple has been directed to pay about £6,000 right from the nose to the RSPCA. In addition, the RSPCA has banned the couple from keeping any animals as pet for life.

As per reports, 50-year-old Lee Powell and 41-year-old Julie Ann Jones were found in the wrong court for subjecting the naïve animal to needless and perhaps avertable pain. The marmoset monkey named Mikey was just four- and-a-half-month old.

In this regard, the Dudley Magistrates' Court conducted a two-day trial for hearing claims from both the sides. The court was informed that the Mikey was jabbed by a veterinary doctor following the disclosure of its injuries.

The couple has therefore been banned from taming any animals as pet, and they will also have to relocate all the pets they have at present to the RSPCA. The court was notified that all other animals kept by the couple at the moment are also monkeys.

On the other hand, the Stourbridge-based couple, Powell and Jones, has nodded not in favor of four inductions laid on them by the RSPCA as per the Animal Welfare Act 2006. During the proceedings of the court, Powell and Jones refused about being mindful of the fact that there was something troubling the health and general wellbeing of the monkey, which was sold earlier in June for £650 by the means of an advertisement they gave in a local newspaper.

Apart from paying £2,713.50 to the RSPCA, the couple will also pay £325 to the woman who bought Mikey from them.