A shopkeeper has been sentenced for selling alcohol to a child and other offences. Alan Brosk from Hove faced charges of selling alcohol to a child and selling counterfeit and illicit tobacco products and oversize vapes. He appeared before Worthing Magistrates on May 16 on behalf of himself and as the sole director representing K & K Station Store in Station Parade, South Street, Lancing.
Brosk received a 12-month community order to carry out 240 hours of unpaid work after he pleaded guilty to the alcohol and tobacco offences He was also ordered to pay fines totalling almost £5,000, a victim surcharge of £114 and all the prosecution costs of £3,060. Read more: Robber threatened petrol station worker with knife The 37-year-old’s alcohol licence was previously revoked on February 28, 2023, by Adur District Council’s licensing sub-committee. All the illicit tobacco and vapes seized were ordered to be destroyed.
The prosecution follows a series of inspections earlier this month in Worthing, Shoreham and Lancing as part of a joint initiative between National Trading Standards and HMRC called Operation Ce Ce. The inspections involved West Sussex Trading Standards working with Sussex Police, Immigration Officers, tobacco detection dogs and Trading Standards regional tobacco experts. The team visited six premises and more than 24,000 sticks of suspected illegal tobacco, 95 packets of suspected illicit hand rolling tobacco, 561 illegal e-cigarettes, over 80 non-compliant nicoti.
