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 […]
Two Lower Addiscombe Road hardware traders felt the sharp edge of the law when they appeared before Croydon magistrates on Tuesday (23) to admit the selling of craft knives and craft knife blades to under-age customers.
Prior to […]
Management and training procedures at the town-centre branch of a national retail chain were questioned when the company was prosecuted for the sale of a knife to under-age customers.
Poundworld Retail Ltd appeared at Croydon Magistrates’ Court on […]
The profit made on a single bottle of Becks beer was wiped out, many times over, for a Thornton Heath shopkeeper when he was fined for selling alcohol to two under-age customers.
Pleading guilty at Croydon Magistrates’ Court […]
Following a recent change to legislation that will see criminals facing substantial jail terms if convicted of a second knife offence, the success of Croydon’s trading standards team in preventing the sale of blades to youngsters has […]
Any profit made on the sale of a £1 knife was more than wiped out when Croydon magistrates imposed a fine and costs totalling almost £7,000 on a London Road store.
The court was told (on Tuesday 7 […]