Illegal street trader fined for second time this year

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Image caption, Cases relating to Kayaoglu's trading have twice been heard at Oxford Magistrates' Court in 2024
  • Author, Nathan Briant
  • Role, 鶹Լ News

A street trader fined for illegally selling food out of a van was prosecuted again for doing the same thing days after his case was heard in court.

Ozgur Kayaoglu, 49, was ordered to pay a total of £6,380 on 31 May after he was caught selling food in a layby off Marcham Road, near Abingdon, Oxfordshire, five times between 23 January and 2 April.

On 12 January, Oxford magistrates had found him guilty in his absence of illegally trading in the same place six times between 19 September and 2 December 2023.

That time, they ordered him to pay a total of £9,087.

Vale of White Horse Council licensing officers spotted Kayaoglu, of Thornford Drive, Swindon, selling food out of a VW Crafter van.

Earlier this year he was “aggressive and intimidating” to officers.

Of the penalties he was told to pay for the most recent offences, he will pay £800 for each of the five instances of illegal street trading, a £1,600 victim surcharge and costs of £780.

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