Overview

• The Metropolitan Police raided the Londenero shop on Oxford Street after a tourist reported being charged £899 for two packets of sweets.
• Seven magic mushroom cookies and approximately ten unlicensed CBD products were among over 3,000 items seized in the largest haul of unsafe goods on Oxford Street to date.
• A hidden tunnel was discovered inside the shop, used by two employees to evade capture during the raid.
• Shop owner Ahmad Yar Jan and 5IVESTAR Limited, which operates an adjacent shop, were fined £2,760 and £2,664 respectively, with all seized goods set for destruction.
• Westminster City Council's ongoing crackdown on illicit American-style candy shops has reduced their number from 40 to 18 since the pandemic.