CCTV captured the bizarre moment a brazen shop worker lit up a cigarette for one of his underage customers.
The incident happened at nuisance convenience store Ormskirk Super Store in Lancashire, which was stripped of its alcohol licence last week, Lancashire Live reports. The footage was uncovered when police examined the store's own CCTV cameras after officers, trading standards and a local councillor raised a catalogue of concerns about practices in the shop.
The footage shows a part-owner of the store leaning over the counter to light a youngster's cigarette after handing him one from a packet. Not only is it illegal to sell underage customers cigarettes, but it is also against the law to smoke inside a shop and sell loose cigarettes.
