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Mr John Langton of White Hart lane, Ufton, Leamington Spa, trading as Motor Masters, of Coventry Road, Marton, Rugby, has pleaded guilty to falsely describing a 1988 blue Ford Fiesta XR2 as 'mint all round'. Warwickshire County Council Trading Standards Service took the prosecution after receiving a complaint from a Wellesbourne consumer who purchased the vehicle. The claims were made in an advertisement in the Leamington and Warwick WHY magazine when the vehicle was actually in a dangerous and unroadworthy condition due to excessive corrosion. At Rugby Magistrates Court on 31st August 2005, Mr Langton pleaded guilty to two offences under the Trade Descriptions Act 1968, one under the Road Traffic Act 1988 and one under the Fair Trading Act 1973. Mr Langton was fined £1350, ordered to pay the consumer £600 compensation and £800 prosecution costs. When a Trading Standards expert vehicle examiner looked at the car he discovered a number of faults that led him to conclude that the vehicle was both dangerous and unroadworthy. These included corrosion to a number of load bearing areas, protruding jagged edges that could potentially have injured any pedestrian that was in collision with the vehicle and severe corrosion around a seat belt mounting. Noel Hunter, Director of Warwickshire Trading Standards said: 'Consumers lives must not be put at risk by irresponsible traders who sell vehicles that are unroadworthy. We will continue to take action against traders who fail to take their responsibilities seriously and I urge any consumer who has suffered similar problems to contact Trading Standards.' As well as falsely describing the vehicle as 'mint all round' when it was not, and supply a vehicle that was in a dangerous and unroadworthy condition, he had also written on the consumers receipt that the vehicle was 'sold as seen', implying that the consumer did not have any rights to redress to if something was subsequently found to be wrong with the vehicle – when this was not true. Consumers do have rights
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Mr John Langton of White Hart lane, Ufton, Leamington Spa, trading as Motor Masters, of Coventry Road, Marton, Rugby, has pleaded guilty to falsely describing a 1988 blue Ford Fiesta XR2 as 'mint all round'. Warwickshire County Council Trading Standards Service took the prosecution after receiving a complaint from a Wellesbourne consumer who purchased the vehicle. The claims were made in an advertisement in the Leamington and Warwick WHY magazine when the vehicle was actually in a dangerous and unroadworthy condition due to excessive corrosion. At Rugby Magistrates Court on 31st August 2005, Mr Langton pleaded guilty to two offences under the Trade Descriptions Act 1968, one under the Road Traffic Act 1988 and one under the Fair Trading Act 1973. Mr Langton was fined £1350, ordered to pay the consumer £600 compensation and £800 prosecution costs. When a Trading Standards expert vehicle examiner looked at the car he discovered a number of faults that led him to conclude that the vehicle was both dangerous and unroadworthy. These included corrosion to a number of load bearing areas, protruding jagged edges that could potentially have injured any pedestrian that was in collision with the vehicle and severe corrosion around a seat belt mounting. Noel Hunter, Director of Warwickshire Trading Standards said: 'Consumers lives must not be put at risk by irresponsible traders who sell vehicles that are unroadworthy. We will continue to take action against traders who fail to take their responsibilities seriously and I urge any consumer who has suffered similar problems to contact Trading Standards.' As well as falsely describing the vehicle as 'mint all round' when it was not, and supply a vehicle that was in a dangerous and unroadworthy condition, he had also written on the consumers receipt that the vehicle was 'sold as seen', implying that the consumer did not have any rights to redress to if something was subsequently found to be wrong with the vehicle – when this was not true. Consumers do have rights
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