Penarth man ordered to repay £130,000 after selling counterfeit goods A PENARTH man has been ordered to pay back £130,000 after being found guilty of selling unsafe cosmetics, counterfeit goods and jewellery breaching hallmarking requirements. Sean Payter was convicted in 2019 following a Trading Standards investigation for the Vale of Glamorgan Council and today faced a Proceeds of Crime Hearing. There the judge decided he must repay a significant sum gained from his illegal activity over the next three months. Shared Regulatory Services (SRS), who undertake trading standards work across the Local Authority areas of Bridgend, Cardiff and the Vale, began investigating Mr Payter after receiving a complaint from the Assay Office, the body responsible for testing and hallmarking precious metals.
07:44, 4 MAY 2021
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A man with a “track record” of animal mistreatment, who kept 240 horses in “appalling conditions”, has been sent to prison and banned from keeping animals for life.
Tom Price, who has previously been prosecuted for welfare offences, and banned for five years, was found guilty on 32 charges, at Merthyr Tydfil Magistrates’ Court last week.
District judge Neil Thomas told 56-year-old “horse trader and breeder” Price, of Redway Road, Bonvilston, that the evidence against him was compelling.
The court heard Price kept animals in “atrocious” conditions, at three sites in the Vale of Glamorgan and Bridgend.
In August 2019, animal welfare officers found a flock of Jacob sheep with fleeces still unshorn during a visit to Swn-y-Mor, Wick.
A MAN has been sent to prison and handed a lifetime ban from keeping animals. Horse trader and breeder, Thomas Tony Price of Redway Road in Bonvilston, has been found guilty on 32 counts of failing to ensure a suitable environment for horses and sheep which caused unnecessary suffering to the animals. Price was sentenced, at Merthyr Tydfil Magistrates Court, to six months in prison and banned for life from keeping any animals after a history of prosecutions for mistreatment that had previously seen him receive a five-year disqualification. Before passing sentence, District Judge Neil Thomas told Price that the evidence against him had been compelling. He had failed to manage the animals competently and was hopelessly overstocked.