Shop worker who sold strawberry ice cream vape to undercover 16-year-old is told to pay £1,400
A shop clerk who sold a disposable vape to a 16-year-old posing as an 18-year-old has been hit with a big court bill.
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The teenage volunteer was recruited by Walsall Council to go into the Midland Market in Digbeth, Walsall, and ask the man behind the counter for a strawberry-flavoured vape.
The shop worker, Harry Singh, asked the teenager if they were 18 or over and when they replied to say that they were, he sold them a strawberry ice cream-flavoured ELF Bar without asking to see any ID, a court heard this week.
The council was investigating the shop late last year after receiving reports from residents that children had been sold vapes, prosecutor Tara Tumber told Dudley Magistrates Court on Wednesday.
A 'test purchase' was arranged for December 13 of 2023. Council officers asked the 16-year-old volunteer to attempt to buy a disposable vape, and Singh subsequently sold the volunteer the strawberry ice cream ELF Bar.
