Illegal carry- out queen is snared
Flogged booze to school children in Ayr
She was the shameless shopkeeper who sold booze to the underage schoolchildren of Ayr.
And all sorts of crime of disorder in the area was linked back to drink bought from the shop run by Manjit Kaur, according to police.
Now justice has finally caught up with the grocer, who tried to prop up her business by serving kids strong drink.
Kaur, 41, is still in denial about the way she ran Toni’s Cornershop 2 in the town’s Craigie. But she’s been found guilty of flouting licensing laws by selling drink to 15- year- old schoolboys.
Kids from miles around used to pile into the shop, some travelling in style by TAXI to get their carryout for Alloway parties.
The pint- sized criminal was fined £ 500 at Ayr Sheriff Court on Tuesday after the evidence stacked up against her.
Two Belmont Academy schoolboys took time off class and told how she sold them £ 30 of drink when they were just 15. They’d bought 14 cans and bottles of Tennents lager, Fosters, Stella Artois and Carlsberg.
And for good measure they added a quarter bottle of Glen’s Vodka, three bottles of MD 20/ 20 and even a Stella Cidre.
But a team of four undercover police in an unmarked car swooped outside as the lads and two friends - also Belmont pupils - got into their Alloway- bound cab.
Mum- of- two Kaur, of Shawfarm Gardens, claimed she had sold the same drink to a skinny hat- wearing man in his forties with a tattoo on his right neck.
And that the lads had just bought SWEETIES.
We told last year how residents close to the store in Morrison Gardens said queues of kids formed every Friday from 4pm to get their drink.
And she lost her licence at the start of last year after serving Buckfast tonic wine and vodka to children.
She had even been using a code from another shop on her bottles so when police stopped kids they couldn’t link it to Kaur.
Crimes of violence and disorder by teenagers were being sparked by illegal sales from the shop, according to police Inspector Sean Mangan.
He also told the licensing board bottles at Toni’s were supposed to be marked UD56 – visible under ultra violet light. But all were marked UD13 which codes a different shop.
Inspector Mangan said: “This was a clear endeavour to make them look as if they were bought elsewhere.”
A Belmont pupil, now 17, told Robert Frazer, prosecuting, he’d walked 30 minutes to the shop for drinks for a party in the Doonvale area of Alloway.
And he bought his drink without being challenged, heading outside to sit on a wall as a group of four waiting for their taxi.
His friend, who also brought drink, said he was served by a “short black haired woman who looked like a Muslim.”
Sgt William Deans, 34, who led the swoop, said he felt the boys’ behaviour was suspicious and all four plain clothes officers got out their unmarked car.
He said: “At first they said there was clothing in the bags before admitting they had bought a quantity of alcohol.”
From the witness box Kaur claimed she had only sold the drink to a man, though her CCTV was not working to prove it.
Answering her lawyer Tony Currie, if she was telling the truth under oath, she said: “Yes.”
The shop shut down shortly after she was caught in January last year and she now works as a delivery driver for a fast food eatery.