Warning over illegal cigarettes after raid
Croydon Council is warning residents to beware of buying fake tobacco after trading standards officers and colleagues at HM Revenue and Customs seized around 175,000 illegal cigarettes worth over £100,000.
September 2021
June 2021
National knife clampdown concludes with 17 prosecutions
The final prosecution in a series of groundbreaking court cases brought by Croydon Council Trading Standards has seen Extreme GB LTD based in Daventry fined £10,000 with £15,000 costs for selling knives to a child.
February 2021
Ten sentenced after Croydon-led trading standards operation
The country’s national trading standards body has praised Croydon Council for successfully prosecuting a network of rogue roofers and money launderers who conned thousands of pounds from vulnerable people.
September 2020
Illegal cigarettes seized in council operation
Croydon Council trading standards officers have confiscated thousands of cigarettes and other tobacco products from three shops suspected of selling counterfeit and illegal goods.
March 2020
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.
October 2019
Illegal online knife sales cost two businesses a total of £20,000
Selling knives online to a 13-year-old led to two companies being ordered to pay a combined total of around £20,000 at Camberwell Green Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.
July 2019
Companies prosecuted for selling knives online to children
A Croydon Council-led national clampdown against illegal online knife sales to children has led to two more successful prosecutions.
Illegal tobacco haul seized
Croydon Council and HM Revenue and Customs officers have seized almost 10,000 illegal cigarettes in a combined operation that inspected shops around the borough.
June 2019
First conviction against online knife sales to children
A Home Office-backed pilot nationwide clampdown against illegal online knife sales to children has secured its first successful prosecution led by Croydon Council.
March 2019
Director fined over illegal sale of knives
A company has been ordered to pay over £5,500 after a store employee illegally sold a pack of 13 knives to a schoolchild.