Trader sent back to prison

A man who traded counterfeit goods at a Wisbech market more than 10 years ago has been jailed for a further eight months after he failed to pay back almost £30,000 of his illicit profits.

Barrie Wilton (65) of Guanockgate Road, Sutton St Edmund, Lincolnshire, was initially sentenced to nine months imprisonment in 2007 after being convicted of counterfeit offences in relation to his trading at a Wisbech market, following an investigation by Cambridgeshire County Council.

In 2010, a Proceeds of Crime Act confiscation order was made against him for a total of £29,950.

However, Wilton only paid around half of this sum and therefore faced a confiscation enforcement hearing at Folkestone Magistrates’ Court last Friday where he was sentenced to a total of 261 days in prison.

The hearing was brought about following a joint investigation by the Eastern Region Special Operations Unit and Cambridgeshire County Council.