Shop that served 15-year-old alcopop has licence revoked
A shop has had its licence revoked after selling alcohol to an undercover 15-year-old, with councillors calling the action "not merely irresponsible, but also illegal."
Super Choice News on Walsall Road, Great Barr, went before the council’s licensing committee on January 12 after an undercover Trading Standards investigation saw a 15-year-old female volunteer served a bottle of WKD.
Speaking at the meeting, a representative for West Midlands Police said the force had no confidence in the shop’s ability to uphold the licensing objectives, with the test purchase following a complaint from the public that a 15- and 16-year-old girl were served alcohol at the shop, which the owner denied.
And while the shop’s owner, Muhammad Sajjad, claimed that his wife had served the girl as she was on the phone at the time dealing with a family bereavement and therefore ‘distressed’, the licensing committee took a ‘dim view’ of the incident.
