A shop in Bradford sold bogus cigarettes and laughing gas dropped via a hidden chute from a flat.
A hidden chute was found at Jimmy Stores, linking it to a flat housing a stash of fake cigarettes and laughing gasA shop sold bogus cigarettes and laughing gas which were dropped via a hidden chute from a flat above.
In a follow-up visit in March a chute was found in a wall linking the shop to a flat where the items were held, West Yorkshire Trading Standards said.Bradford council's licensing panel was told the 24-hour off licence on Great Horton Road, which is a short distance from the university, had become a hotspot for anti-social behaviour.
Councillors heard trading standards officers bought a packet of fake cigarettes from the shop in a test purchase in October that led to the raid in November.More than 1,200 illicit cigarettes and nitrous oxide canisters were seized from the business He said officers along with police, visited the flat and found counterfeit cigarettes and boxes of "Smartwhip nitrous oxide"."Between the two visits the aggravating circumstances was the introduction of the chute."Councillor Nazam Azam told the meeting there were "queues at three in the morning" of people wanting nitrous oxide and he had received complaints about "rowdy behaviour".
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