Owner 'not eating or sleeping' after dog thieves steal Portia Portia's owner worries she was followed home from her dog walk by thieves 05:00, 13 MAY 2021 Three-year-old Portia, a King Charles Spaniel was stolen from her owners home in Newton Le Willows (Image: Merseyside Police) A devastated dog owner said she 'can't eat or sleep' after her beloved King Charles Spaniel was stolen. Portia the dog was taken from her home in Newton-Le-Willows, St Helens, on April 24. Owner Beverly Gaffney, 53, was volunteering abroad when Portia was stolen and said her husband returned from shopping at Wilkinson's to find their three-year-old King Charles Spaniel was gone.