Mr Brunton, from Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, is credited with increasing the number of scouts in Middlesbrough and Gainsborough and the opportunities available to them.

Mark Keal from Lincolnshire Trading Standards, said: “Without this evidence it is incredibly difficult to get successful prosecutions and get these products off the street.”

It follows the discovery of the virus in the wild in Scotland and Wales and on a Lincolnshire farm last week.