Collier Row shop keeper, Mr Ashgar of Aladdin’s Cave, Collier Row Road, was fined £800 and ordered to pay £840 prosecution costs at Havering Magistrates Court last week for selling a knife to a an underage child.
In a Trading Standards operation in November 2008, two under-age volunteers aged 14 visited Aladdin’s Cave, Collier Row Road, Romford and were sold a sharp craft knife by shop keeper Imran Ashgar.
Neither of the children was asked for identification by Mr Ashgar even though the packaging the knife was contained in, stated clearly that it should not be sold to anyone under 18.
Cllr Andrew Mann said “Knife crime in Havering is low but we want to make the borough safer. The Council has a zero tolerance attitude to the selling of knives and I will continue to push the Council to carry on with their test purchasing operations so that the message goes out loud and clear - we don’t want people carrying knives on our streets.”
In a Trading Standards operation in November 2008, two under-age volunteers aged 14 visited Aladdin’s Cave, Collier Row Road, Romford and were sold a sharp craft knife by shop keeper Imran Ashgar.
Neither of the children was asked for identification by Mr Ashgar even though the packaging the knife was contained in, stated clearly that it should not be sold to anyone under 18.
Cllr Andrew Mann said “Knife crime in Havering is low but we want to make the borough safer. The Council has a zero tolerance attitude to the selling of knives and I will continue to push the Council to carry on with their test purchasing operations so that the message goes out loud and clear - we don’t want people carrying knives on our streets.”
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