A BUSINESS and two individuals have been sentenced by the courts over offences involving vapes.

Warrington Magistrates’ Court recently heard three cases involving the sale and supply of electronic cigarettes.

Mudassar Latif, of Horrocks Lane in Warrington town centre admitted selling a nicotine inhaling product, namely a Crystal lemon and lime flavour disposable vape, to a person aged under 18.

The offence occurred in Warrington on July 27 last year.

The 31-year-old was handed a conditional discharge for 12 months and ordered to pay a total of £126, broken down into court costs of £100 and a statutory surcharge of £26.

This means no punishment is imposed, but if he does commit another offence withing the next year, he will be brought back to court to be sentenced for both the old and new offences.

Top Latchford Easy Shop Ltd, of Knutsford Road in Latchford, was also sentenced of an offence in Warrington on the same day.

It admitted selling a nicotine inhaling product, namely an Elf Bar ‘blue razz lemonade’ flavour disposable vape, to a person aged under 18.

The business was ordered to pay £613, including a fine of £184, court costs of £355 and a surcharge to fund victim services of £74.

The court also heard the case of Ayub Yousaf, aged 27 and of Cartier Close in Westbrook, with all four offences occurring on July 31 at Padgate Convenience Store, Bruche Heath Gardens.

He supplied electronic cigarettes which did not comply with regulations of the Tobacco and Related Products Regulations Act 2016.

He admitted that 104 packets of Elux disposable electronic cigarettes in his possession for supply bore no contact details of the producer and no indication of delivery per dose.

The same regulation breaches were admitted relating to 39 packets of R&M disposable electronic cigarettes ready to be supplied.

Yousaf was told he must pay a total of £986, including fines of £348, court costs of £500 and a statutory victim surcharge of £138.

The court approved orders to deprive the defendant of the packets of Elux and R&M disposable e-cigs.