National knife clampdown pilot reaches 15 prosecutions
Illegally selling knives online to a child has landed the owners of major shopping website Very with a £20,000 fine under the latest groundbreaking court cases brought by Croydon Council.
March 2020
September 2019
Businesses fined over illegal knife sales
Illegal online knife sales to children have led to three more businesses being fined thousands of pounds under a Croydon Council-led pilot nationwide clampdown.
September 2017
Keeping knives off the street
Testing traders’ knowledge of, and adherence to, the law where the sale of knives is concerned is a key tool of Croydon Council’s trading standards team in combating the capital-wide problem of knife crime.
Figures published by London […]
December 2016
Second conviction earns trader jail sentence
A Norbury-based trader has become the borough’s first store owner to be handed a prison sentence for selling knives to underage customers.
Shakeb Hakime, of Norbury Discount Store, London Road, was sentenced to 10 weeks’ jail, suspended for […]
February 2016
Do you Pass? – Trading standards can help
The laws surrounding the sale of age-restricted goods are outlined in a course being offered, free of charge, to local businesses by Croydon’s trading standards department.
The “Fair Trading Award do you Pass?” accredited training course informs traders […]