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Horndon on the Hill toy supplier fined over dangerous goods

Toy supplier fined over dangerous goods

Toy supplier fined over dangerous goods A THURROCK based company and its director have been forced to pay out more than £4,100 after they failed to follow advice to ensure that imported toys met proper safety standards and did not pose a danger to children. JL Supplies Ltd were fined £600 and ordered to pay £937 costs and £60 victim surcharge while company director, Jonathon Laidlaw was fined £1,400 and ordered to pay £1,000 costs and a £140 victim surcharge after pleading guilty to importing and supplying unsafe toys that could have hurt children when he appeared at Southend Magistrates Court on 14 April. An inspection by Thurrock Council Trading Standards officers carried out at the company premises in Horndon-on-the-Hill found the supplier had toys that didn’t have safety documentation. Further testing found a number of unsafe toys which put children at risk of choking and asphyxiation and other toys which did not carry the proper documentation and label

Westcliff dangerous bedsit: Shocking images show conditions

Shocking images reveal life inside a squalid Westcliff flat - which led to the owner getting a £100,000 fine in court. Babatunde Arise, 54 who owns 40 Satanita Road in Westcliff and letting agent Bromwell UK Ltd were slapped with fines of £109,000 after Southend Council investigated and found a vast number of faults and failings. Images reveal broken doors and windows, unsafe electric works, various damp areas and other issues deemed dangerous by council bosses. Arise was found guilty and was fined £88,976 following conviction for 17 failures over management of Houses in Multiple Occupation. He appealed against the sentence given by the court and the appeal was heard at Basildon Crown Court and the court upheld the original sentencing and dismissed the appeal, with the judge commenting that the house was in a shocking state and an insult to society that the landlord was allowing people to live there.

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