A 37-year-old man has admitted three charges of selling counterfeit cigarettes and tobacco on the streets of an East Lancashire town.
Darren Clayton pleaded guilty to the offences which took place on two days in Accrington town centre last year.
Clayton, of Carr Road, Edlington, Doncaster, was spotted selling the fake tobacco in Broadway by trading standards officers.
At Hyndburn Magistrates' Court this week he admitted the charges and will be sentenced next month. Nick McNamara, prosecuting, said that Clayton was caught selling several packets of cigarettes with a false Lambert and Butler logo on April 13.
On the same day he was also selling nine pouches of counterfeit tobacco, which bore the words Golden Virginia.
On May 30 in the same location he was again spotted trying to sell 28 pouches fake Golden Virginia. He was prosecuted under the Trademarks Act 1994.
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