Selling To A Minor

[danchan]

i recently sold a chopping board and set of knives to a 15 year old girl sent into the shop by trading standards and im wondering what charge i will get im worried

[hc4361]

A fine of up to £5000, as a first offence I would expect around a £1500 fine + costs.

The offence can be punished by a 6 months' prison sentence but this is highly unlikey.

[Buenchico]

Examples here:
http://www.croydonadvertiser.co.uk/Croydon-town-centre-store-fined-selling-inch/story-26626546-detail/story.html

http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/news/local-news/knife-selling-harrow-post-office-fined-6010341

http://www.kilburntimes.co.uk/news/crime-court/neasden_company_fined_for_selling_knife_to_underage_schoolboy_1_1949939

[Canary42]

These "stings" don't achieve anything in reducing knife crime IMHO.

[Mosaic]

Look, an assistant in Boots refused to sell me migraleve as I'm over 50 and look it. That's something that could harm me, but cost society. Ditto with a kid and a set of sharp knives...it's not just about you but about the wider implications. Arsenic could be bought over the counter without a record being taken in the 19th century, hence many people got bumped off with rat poison.

[woofgang]

mosaic, why wouldn't they sell you migralieve because you are over 50?

[Mosaic]

I was told it was to do with potential stroke risk (I was fat at the time).
So I went to superdrug and bought it, they didn't think it was a problem.

[Cloverjo]

Superdrug don't seem to give their employees any training at all. I'm not surprised they don't care what you want to buy. They'd probably let you buy ten packs of paracetamol, if the till/computer didn't pop up with a message.

[woofgang]

I am distinctly traditionally built and look my age (over 60) have never had any problem buying migralieve anywhere including Boots. Online the only limitation is that it shouldn't be given to under 12's and under 16's can't buy it...can't find any correlation with stroke risk with ordinary Migralieve.
Migralieve Ultra which is a different drug (sumitriptan) does carry a risk of further stroke in people who have already had one, or tia and is not to be used by people over 65 (I wonder how the tablets know your age though) but standard migralieve is paracetamol, codeine and Buclizine Hydrochloride and carries no such risk. I reckon the assistant was wrong....

[Peter Pedant]

agree with woofie

http://www.drugs.com/mmx/buclizine-hydrochloride.html

I went thro the whole of this (!) and there is no info on geriatrics ( sorry mosaic )