Magistrates ordered a used car dealer to pay £5,000 in compensation and fines after after hearing how he sold unroadworthy vehicles and refused customer refunds.
Morecombe-based Ford dealer Pye Motors has been fined £120,000 for safety breaches after a technician was dragged under a van, suffering multiple injuries.
The manager of a Vauxhall dealership ended a “glowing” career with a suspended prison sentence after selling the franchise's part-ex stock for his own gain.
A car dealer from Bury has been handed a 22-month suspended jail sentence after failing to declare his true income or register his business for VAT.
A motorist was handed a six months suspended jail sentence and handed a £20,000 court bill after attacking a vehicle with a sledgehammer at his local Subaru dealership.
An Audi salesman smashed up a showroom’s printer before driving his company car at his boss in a rage over a disciplinary hearing, a court heard.
Not everyone has the same view of what’s attractive, particularly with second-hand cars. Beauty is in the eye of the seller and there can be a tendency to embellish.
Lawyers battling Volkswagen Group have shifted their sights towards Bosch, stating that the supplier was an active participant in the "decade-long illegal enterprise to defraud US consumers.”
A “devious” former service assistant found guilty of stealing £3,000 from John Clark Motor Group’s BMW Aberdeen dealership has been jailed for four months.
A conwoman preyed on the John Clark Motor Group dealership which briefly employed her and pocketed thousands of pounds as a result.
A Vauxhall and Kia dealership has been fined after failing to disclose that a used Insignia saloon was an ex-rental car.
A car dealer has been fined £2,000 after selling an unroadworthy Hyundai which he had described in an advertisement as “fabulous”.
A used car dealer whose payments for privately-bought stock cars repeatedly came up short has been ordered to pay £15,000 in compensation and issued with a six-month suspended jail sentence.
A conman stole the identities of innocent people, took out fake motor insurance policies and posed as a care assistant who was the victim of a number of car crashes.
Magistrates fined a used car dealer £9,700 after he offered vehicles for sale with an array of faults including illegal tyres and corroded components.
A showroom manager who pocketed £246,000 in cash swindled from the sale of his employers used car stock has been jailed for 30 months.
A car supermarket boss has been jailed for two years after channeling financial transactions related to 900 vehicles through a valet’s bank account to avoid paying tax.
A used car dealer who admitted selling five clockedcars – selling one of them twice – has escaped an immediate custodial sentence.
A used car dealer and his former mechanic have been jailed after trading standards services uncovered evidence of clocked cars, forged documents and knowingly “misdescribed” vehicles.
A car supermarket had more than £51,000 “skimmed” from its vehicle sales by a salesman who stole from the business in a bid to solve his financial problems.
