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Trading Standards
08:58, 21 MAR 2024
Barnet rogue trader conned people of nearly £70,000 for unfinished work across East London
Redbridge
Matthew Collins was sentenced to two separate two-year imprisonments to run concurrently suspended for two years
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Mitcham loan sharks, in their 70s, handed out illegal £20k loans with 20 per cent interest
Metropolitan Police
The pair ran an illegal money-lending operation, applying pressure when people couldn't pay
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Oxford Street American candy store raided with £55k of illegal vapes and sweets linked to cancer seized
BBC
Westminster City Council said officers found fake mobile covers and electrical equipment missing UK safety stickers
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Rogue builder defrauded client on £700k South Kensington home refurb and gambled it away
Kensington and Chelsea
He took the client to visit a property where he had not in fact worked as part of the ploy
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Dodgy designer watches and belts worth over £100K seized from East London shop in huge raid
Trading Standards
Trading standards officers also seized a number of illegal vapes
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East London shop told repeatedly to stop selling illegal cigarettes - £3k later they regret not listening
Trading Standards
The Dagenham shop was caught with hundreds' of illegal cigarettes during three different Trading Standards inspections
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London shop caught selling knives to teens hit with another £4,500 fine for selling lighter fluid to 15-year-old
Brent
The same shop was earlier fined more than £3,000 for selling a 23cm knife to a teenager in a council sting operation
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'Pillar of Tower Hamlets community' tearful as she begs council not to close her shop down but its record doesn't look good
Tower Hamlets
The book used to record when kids have been refused alcohol is still blank after 12 years
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East London business fined £34,000 for selling unsafe face masks and hand sanitiser during pandemic
Trading Standards
Facemasks bought by the business had previously been seized at Heathrow
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Outrage as three East London shops caught selling vapes to kids
Trading Standards
The three unnamed shops sold vapes to kids as young as 14
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East London shop accused of 'letting random people run it' loses licence after girl, 14, sold bottle of WKD
Tower Hamlets
The licensing sub-committee decided to revoke the shop's licence because it had "no confidence" that the shop could change for the better
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Over £15k of illegal tobacco products seized by East London council in one of the 'largest' raids ever
Trading Standards
The tobacco products had no duty-paid mark on them and had evaded paying tax
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Brent shop that sells huge 23cm knife to teens made to pay over £3k after getting caught out in trading standards sting
Trading Standards
The premises were ordered to pay more than £3k for the offence
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Soft toys seized from Enfield shop because the eyes are choking hazard for children
Enfield
Trading Standards found 17 of the fake soft toys
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Enfield corner shop slapped with £7K fine after sniffer dogs uncover stash of illegal cigarettes
Enfield
Trading Standards found more than 4,000 dodgy cigarettes
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Third of Oxford Street Candy stores have been shut down in crackdown on 'dirty money'
Westminster
Westminster City Council have claimed back £250,000 in business rate arrears
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North London shop fined £6k after 14,000 dodgy cigarettes found by sniffer dogs
Trading Standards
The mislabelled tobacco was being sold at a cheaper price
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Rogue HGV instructor spared jail after he conned £63k out of victims
Courts
A few victims spent as much as £4,500 on training they never received
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London councils seized thousands of 'harmful' toys and jigsaws in huge crackdown
Harrow
Thousands of cosmetics and dodgy body massagers were also confiscated
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Father and son sentenced after selling clocked Mercedes, BMWs and Audis under fake names
Crime
The duo sold an estimated £180k worth of dodgy vehicles
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Greenwich shops fined huge £26k after trying to sell illegal baby shampoo
Greenwich
Bexley Magistrates court handed out the punishments to the two cosmetic stores
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West London off licence owner fined nearly £7k after selling illegal tobacco he stashed in a whiskey box
Hanwell
He had continued to sell illegal tobacco since 2017 despite warnings
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Southall jeweller ordered to pay more than £7.5k after selling gold without a hallmark
Southall
The jeweller was also found to have falsely claimed one 18-carat piece was actually 22-carat
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'Astonishing' haul of knock-off goods and cannabis edibles seized by police in Oxford Street raids
Westminster
More than 17,500 items were recovered as police targeted souvenir and sweet shops
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