Sex Shop duo spared jailed
Published 2 Nov 2010 13:30
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A SEX shop owner who was secretly filmed telling undercover trading standards officers how to take Moonshine bath salts laced with the killer drug mephedrone has been let off with a fine.
It is a sentence which was branded “disgusting” by the mother of a teenage boy who died after taking the now illegal substance at a party in Ayr earlier this year.
Margaret McCracken, 48, was caught in a Trading Standards sting at Body Style adult theme shop which she runs with her partner, Frank Nicholson, 59.
Depute fiscal Brian Maguire told Ayr Sheriff Court last week that officers carried out a covert operation at the shop when they were sold Moonshine - also known as bubbles or M Cat - by McCracken.
He said she was caught on camera telling the undercover team to “take it with a glass of water”
McCracken admitted that on November 13 last year she sold Moonshine bath salts containing mephedrone with a “wicked disregard for the consequences” and that she encouraged its ingestion, exposing the public to the possibility of “injury, mental health problems and death”.
Nicholson admitted offering Moonshine for sale and supplying it at Body Style between November 11, 2009 and March 23, 2010, in packaging which did not include a list of the ingredients, a sell-by date or the registered office of the manufacturer.
Mr Maguire said that when trading standards officers went back to the shop on March 22 and told Nicholson to stop selling Moonshine, he replied: “I’ll take it under advisement.”
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This article appeared in Troon Times 02 Nov 10
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