fake richmond cigarettes cigarette gang behind £1.8m smuggling plot jailed for 26 years Counterfeit Cigarettes on the Market

Officers have targeted a number of businesses where illicit tobacco products were believed to be on sale

The tobacco products were ordered to be forfeited and destroyed

Alternatively, you can also report information via the London Trading Standards consumer crime tool ( You can report information that is associated with people dealing in fake, illicit, unsafe products, or the sale of age-restricted products to children.

Hazell Lumbley, her ex-partner Steven Henderson, and Hazells daughter, Hayley Eaton, were caught by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) investigators, who were monitoring the adverts before raiding the family home in April 2017

He was fined 50,000 by customs, given a one-year suspended prison sentence, and banned from French territory for five years

Trading standards officers have previously found illegal hauls hidden in toilet cisterns, in boxes of sweets, behind extractor fans and in ceiling lights