1/1 THE owner of two Bradford shops used a number of secret compartments, including a remote controlled hydraulic chamber, to hide the counterfeit tobacco that he sold to boost his business. Giedrius Linkevicius pleaded guilty to a string of charges related to the sale of counterfeit cigarettes when he appeared at Bradford Magistrates Court on Tuesday. He was ordered to pay almost £10,000, and told to carry out 100 hours of unpaid work. Linkevicius, Director of Leo Food Stores, ran two shops, 7 Days store on Sticker Lane and Eko Polski on Legrams Lane, and the Court heard that he sold the counterfeit cigarettes because many of his Eastern European clientele did not wish to purchase full cost, legal cigarettes.
1/1 TWO men have been fined after inspectors found rusty equipment and filthy conditions in their Bradford pie manufacturing business. Neil Anderton and Paul Anderton appeared at Bradford and Keighley Magistrates Court on Tuesday, pleading guilty to a number of food hygiene charges, and were each fined over £2,700. The charges stem from an inspection of their business, WH & S Anderton and Sons, based at Bowling Court, on November 1 2019. The business manufactures pork pies, and supplies cafes, shops, pubs and working men’s clubs across Bradford. It produces on average 1,800 pies and pastries a week. Bradford Council had issued a caution to the business earlier that year due to concerns over cleanliness, and during the November inspection found a number of issues.
1/1 A BAKERY that supplied cakes to dozens of Bradford businesses was shut down after inspectors found it in a filthy condition, and littered with mouse droppings. And during the inspection officers found a plastic tub used to store Nutmeg also contained an unidentified dropping and a large, dead spider. Khalid Hussain was the owner and, at the time of the January 2020 inspection, sole employee of a company trading as Fine Bakers at Bullroyd Industrial Estate - a business that has since taken on new ownership. He appeared at Bradford and Keighley Magistrates Court yesterday, charged with a string of food hygiene offences.