Piers Mummery, managing director of Shoots garden centre is not a happy man after being 'stitched up' by Brent and Harrow Trading Standards.
Brent and Harrow Trading Standards sent a child into the garden centre to buy a pruning saw. It is now illegal to sell potentially offensive weapons to anyone under the age of eighteen.
The shop assistant who sold the item was only sixteen. The Harrow Times quotes Piers Mummery: He said: “It incensed me because I felt totally stitched-up. He was only 16. This poor kid was almost in tears. I think entrapment is the wrong approach.”
Piers Mummery was invited into a formal interview but that meeting was cancelled and Mr Mummery feels that Brent and Harrow Trading Standards are now back peddling and said: “I felt scapegoated. We were trying to do everything right. They entrapped us and now they are back-peddling.”
Mr Mummery went on: “If someone wants to go and stab someone they're not going to get into a car and go to the garden centre and buy a pruning saw."
What do you think, is the law an ass?
Shoots Stanmore Garden Centre | Common Rd | Stanmore | Middlesex | HA7 3JF
Tel: 020 8954 4628
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