Harehills shop has licence revoked after cigarettes found in hidey-hole

A shop has had its premises licence revoked after illicit tobacco products were found in a specially-built hiding place.

Leeds City Council’s licensing sub-committee heard the shop at 31C Harehills Road was first visited on January 19. A report to the meeting said 119 oversized vapes were also found on site. PC Neil Haywood told the hearing: “This was a professionally-constructed concealment. It’s quite clever, what they were doing.”

His report said: “From discrepancies in the packaging on some cigarettes and from the foreign excise stamps on others it was clear to me the cigarettes were a mix of counterfeit and smuggled items.”

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