A STALLHOLDER who sold fake celebrity autographs -- including those of Kate Winslett and Roger Moore -- has had his sentence cut and his £10,000 costs order slashed to £100.
Larry Bore, aged 48, of Campbell Close, Walshaw, Bury, was given a six-month suspended jail term and ordered to pay legal costs at Warwick Crown Court last November.
He had pleaded guilty to 14 trading standards offences, involving applying false trade descriptions to goods, supplying such goods, and offering to supply them.
Yesterday, the Criminal Appeal Court in London quashed the suspended jail term and imposed a two-year conditional discharge instead.
Mr Justice Fulford, sitting with Mr Justice Aikens, also noted Bore's "parlous financial situation" and his inability to pay the £10,000 costs bill.
Bore sold signed photographs of celebrities to the public from a stall at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham. The photos usually sold for about £26 to £30, although some could be more.
"In our judgment, it was wholly excessive," he said. "We quash it and substitute one for £100."
In his guilty plea he accepted he was the overall person responsible for items sold from the stall. Thirty similar offences were taken into consideration.
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