A WOMAN who sold counterfeit DVDs and CDs at the Redcar Racecourse car boot sale has been given an 18-month community rehabilitation order by Teesside magistrates.
Carol Ann Oliver, of St Ann's Terrace, Portrack, Stockton, admitted six charges. She also changed her plea from not guilty to guilty to a further eight charges, in a prosecution by Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council.
The court heard that a joint operation, codename Operation Bargain Hunt, involving the council's trading standards unit and Cleveland police, seized 400 DVDs and CDs at the car boot sale on November 2 last year.
The prosecution was brought under four different acts - business names, trade marks, video recordings and copyright, designs and patents .
In mitigation, the court heard she no longer attended car boot sales and had given all her legitimate stock to charity.
After the case, chief trading standards officer Jeff Bell said: "The judgement shows that the court took a serious view of the profitable business Mrs Oliver was running at the car boot sale.
"If the goods had been legitimate, they would have had a value of at least £4,000."
Oliver must pay £400 costs.
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