Pub landlady fined for selling alcohol to child
A PUB landlady has been ordered to pay a total of £400 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to selling alcohol to a child.
Christina Bolland, the designated premise supervisor of The Black Bear Inn, Sandbach, sold alcohol to a 14-year-old volunteer during a sting operation.
Crewe Magistrates' Court heard Cheshire East Council's consumer protection and investigations team carried out a test purchase exercise in the town on October 4.
Bolland has now been fined £100 and ordered to pay £300 towards the council's costs.
Bolland was allowed to keep her licence after a review by Cheshire East Council, but ordered to undergo further training.
Councillor Rachel Bailey, cabinet member for safer and stronger communities, said: "Operations like this help in our efforts to tackle underage drinking."
Comments
by Johntoe
Saturday, February 25 2012, 12:58PM
“Where are the angry outraged comments and demands that this person be "given life" (or worse) that we usually get on this site when a person is convicted for dealing in even 'soft drugs' like cannabis?
Here we have a person convicted of 'dealing' (or supplying) an addictive 'killer drug' to a CHILD, and..... silence, such is the power of conditioning,
Well I will say it, this person should have been dealt with in exactly the same way that a person who was convicted of selling an ILLEGAL drug to a child would have been, a killer drug is a killer drug,”