THE OWNER of a Hyde shop will be sentenced early in the new year after admitting a string of offences relating to illicit stock.
Humayoon Sahil, who runs the Super Discount Store on Clarendon Place, admitted 10 counts brought by Tameside Council when he appeared at the borough’s Magistrates Court on Monday, November 20.
Now he will be brought back before the bench on Monday, January 22, when he will be sentenced.
According to court documents, Bolton-based Sahil supplied a packet of Richmond King Size cigarettes on February 13, 2022, which did not carry a combined health warning.
Between that date and September 4 that year, he supplied Richmond King Size cigarettes that did not comply with regulations as the packet was the wrong colour.
He was also charged with looking to sell 51 packets of Amber Leaf hand rolling tobacco, 31 packets of Richmond King Size and 29 packets of Lambert and Butler cigarettes, all in packaging designed to make the look real on September 14.
On that same day, Sahil supplied 18 packets of Platinum Seven and six of Queen Menthol that did not carry a combined health warning – they along with 10 packets of Flandria hand rolling tobacco did not have the required packaging and the latter’s health warning was found to be not in English.
Sahil was also charged with supplying ‘cigarettes with a characterising flavour’ and failing to submit information in accordance with the Tobacco and related Products Regulations 2016, regarding more than 20 packets of Soex Herbal Molasses, again on September 14, 2022.
The 44-year-old pleaded guilty to all 10 charges when he appeared at Tameside Magistrates Court.
Those mops look a little dodgy.