Honest Ben-not quite so honest

Lambeth

Date: 13.11.2002
Ref: 1440
Press contact: Isolda McNeill
Tel: 020 7926 2841
Email: imcneill@lambeth.gov.uk

Press Release

Honest Ben-not quite so honest

"Honest Ben's", a Cost Cutter shop at Black Prince Road in Vauxhall, has been fined as a result of a prosecution taken by Lambeth Trading Standards at Camberwell Green Magistrates Court.

Trading Standards brought the prosecution after investigating complaints from local workers that the shop did not display any prices and that the owner, Mr Parveen Goyal, seemed to make up the prices on seeing the customer.

It is a legal requirement on shops to display their prices.

Officers from trading standards visited the sop and found 17 food items in the chilled cabinet on sale well beyond their "use by" dates. They also discovered that virtually none of the goods on display were priced.

The officers also noted that there was no sign in the shop forbidding the sale of cigarettes to children.

Mr Goyal pleaded guilty to offences under the Prices Act 1974, the Food Safety Act 1990, the Business Names Act 1985 and the Children and Young Persons (Protection from Tobacco) Act 1991.

He and was fined £500 and had to pay the council costs of £304.

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