A newsagent who sold "legal highs" found to contain illegal substances was given a suspended jail sentence.
Narendra Patidar who runs the Ashby Square News in Loughborough was initially warned by the police on January 28, 2015 that the pills and powders might contain banned chemicals.
Although he ceased selling the products, when the police executed a search warrant two months later on March 24 they found a box in the shop's storeroom contained packets of pills and powders which turned out to contain banned class A and class B substances, Leicester Crown Court was told.
Patidar (48) was given a 32 week jail sentence, suspended for 18 months, with 140 hours of unpaid work. He was ordered to pay £750 prosecution costs.
Patidar, of Alfred Street, Loughborough, pleaded guilty to two counts of having supplied so called legal highs containing class B Methylenedioxy-N-ethylcathinone and Ethylaminobenzofuran, between January 1 and 27 last year – before receiving the police warning.
He also admitted two counts of possessing the same class B substances as well as one count of possessing a class A drug, Alpha-Methyltryptamine, all on March 24 last year.
