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It seems he was given free rein. Husband describes what happened after Gill abandoned Mareeba. He left without paying the local people who had built the zoo. But they were amazing. They organised themselves into a base of volunteers [to keep the zoo open]. They helped provide food; farmers would provide meat. So how, despite so many failures and warnings, did South Lakes zoo stay open?

Barrow borough council, which repeatedly reissued its licence, does not respond. I call three times in two days. I n May , Fiona McClay was on holiday in her native Scotland, when her sister, who she was with, began getting messages on her phone. A member of staff was trying to find me on Facebook. She was told her daughter had been seriously injured and was unconscious. She had been airlifted to Preston hospital.

The sisters drove as fast as they could, but by the time they reached her, Sarah had died. Gill told the press she had made an unwise and baffling mistake. It took three years for the truth to come out at inquest: Sarah was in a staff corridor next to the tiger enclosure when the tiger attacked and mauled her — a bolt on a gate was defective. McClay has a picture of Sarah on the swings at the zoo as a child; South Lakes was the job of her dreams. She studied conservation science at university and had been working at the zoo for two years when she died.

She heard nothing from Gill when her daughter died, she says. Gill denies this, and says in his recollection, she was contacted by him. She now campaigns for changes in zoo legislation. The food was inadequate. On a daily basis, I had to go down to the supermarkets to pick up out-of-date leftovers. The baboons were being fed Danish pastries and other cakes, and all the bread left behind in the rhino enclosure.

The birds would get dog biscuits. When I threw out some rotting ham and eggs, another member of staff rummaged through the bins and reported me for wasting food. Three tortoises died during his short tenure, including Goliath, the one who was electrocuted. I tried to explain tortoises need very high temperatures and UV. The former keeper says he never saw evidence of vaccination or worming treatments.

A dead reindeer was fed to the big cats. Lemurs would access the tiger enclosure and get killed. The former employee remembers seeing Schreiber carrying out a postmortem on an antelope in the meat prep area.

Staff with no training, no clue. The enclosures were filthy. It was depressing. Pablo was stitched up a bit and put in a separate area, but they just left him there for days. He died of septicaemia. Death becomes the norm. I speak to another whistleblower, this time on the record. Potter started out as a volunteer a couple of days a week, helping clean paths and other odd jobs.

It felt like a dream when South Lakes then hired him to work full-time as an animal carer: preparing food for the animals in the mornings, dealing with pest control in the afternoons. It turned out she was pregnant. She had her baby recently, and that baby is now dead after being removed from its mother at a few days old.

The animal deaths at the zoo are still continuing under the new management, including the adult male babirusa, a mongoose, leopard tortoise, scarlet ibis, rhea and an emaciated penguin. Potter says he was also forced to supplement the food supply from local supermarkets.

Potter is speaking on the phone from his car. He and his wife are stuck in traffic on the motorway with all their belongings. Going on the record was a huge risk — South Lakes staff are contractually banned from even taking photographs on site — but Potter is in a chipper mood, relieved at finally having talked. In his two years there, 10 keepers left the zoo. I went to management and pushed as much as I could. Potter describes a chaotic atmosphere. The ones who are more highly prized are the ones they can make money from — lemurs, camels, giraffes that the public pay to hand-feed.

Potter disputes this.