Havering Council's Trading Standards Service has prosecuted a company for supplying unsafe electrical items.
51 faulty illuminated motion pictures were seized and destroyed from a retail unit in The Liberty, Romford. Havering's Trading Standard Service prosecuted GSD Limited of Frogmore Road, Apsley, Hemel Hempstead at Havering Magistrates Court on Monday 4 February for four offences under the Consumer Protection Act for supplying unsafe electrical items. The company was fined £8000 and a further £2000 in costs.
Cabinet Member for Environmental and Technical services, Councillor Paul Rochford, said "These items were distributed all over the country and the officers of the trading standards service had issued a suspension notice for over 60000 of these still in the warehouse waiting to be sold to the public. These are serious matters with the safety of our residents in mind and someone could have been seriously injured."
Principal Trading Standards Officer, William Adams, said "The service reacted at once when we had suspicion of these products and officers carried out the seizure and suspension of these items. We will not hesitate to take legal action against traders who fall short of the requirements of selling safe products."
