Market trader prosecuted for selling unsafe and counterfeit goods

December 8th, 2011 by admin

A trader at a market on Portland has been prosecuted after Trading Standards officers seized more than 600 counterfeit items from him. Timothy David Smale, 46 of Weston-super-Mare, was sentenced on Thursday, 1 December at Weymouth Magistrates Court having previously pleaded guilty to two offences of possessing unsafe electrical items for supply, and nine offences of [...]

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Fakers dealing in death

May 2nd, 2011 by admin

Sergeant Greg Cooper with the counterfeit goods seized in three raids in Sydney. Photo: Janie Barrett EXPLODING mobile phone batteries, chemicals in soap that can burn a child’s skin and hair straighteners that can deliver a deadly electric shock. Consumers risk serious injury and death caused by millions of poorly manufactured counterfeit goods flooding into [...]

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