The shop had its premises licence suspended after selling a knife and alcohol to underage teens in separate incidents in just over a fortnight of each other
A convenience store in Chorley has had its premises licence suspended after selling a knife and alcohol to underage teens in separate incidents in just over a fortnight of each other.
, including the adoption of a “Challenge 25” policy, under which anyone who appears to be younger than 25 will be asked to provide identification when buying an age-restricted product to prove that they are old enough to make the purchase. Asked by panel chair Cllr Matthew Lynch why he had allowed the sale to go ahead, Mr. Singh claimed to have asked the age of the older of the two teens and been told he was 16, adding: “But my mind [has then] completely gone blank and I never asked for his ID and refused the sale. There was a lot going on in the shop.
The panel was played covert footage taken during the sale of the alcohol by the shop assistant, which PC Connolly said showed that the pair had displayed a degree of nervousness about what they were doing – but that the staff member had not made “any sort of eye contact” with them. “He accepts that, on those occasions…he fell significantly short of the high standards that quite understandably exist and are expected of any designated premises supervisor,” Mr Smith said.
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