Pedlar is fined after trying to sell goods in Curbar without a certificate

A door-to-door salesman has been forced to pay £181 after he was operating in Curbar without a pedlar's certificate.
Chesterfield magistrates' court.Chesterfield magistrates' court.
Chesterfield magistrates' court.

Chesterfield magistrates’ court heard on May 25 how Karl Wyatt, 30, of Ilkeston Road, Nottingham, was stopped by police as they saw him with a holdall visiting a property and talking to a householder.

Prosecuting solicitor Becky Allsop said: “In the afternoon of May 4 police attended a local election at a church and they were standing outside a polling station and they saw Wyatt carrying a holdall.

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“He approached a house and they heard him speaking to a householder.”

Mrs Allsop added that police asked Wyatt if he had been selling door-to-door and he said yes but he did not have a pedlar’s certificate with him.

Wyatt, who has previous convictions for operating without a pedlar’s certificate and for dishonesty, pleaded guilty to operating without a certificate after the latest offence on May 4.

The defendant told the court that he had qualified as a plasterer but he has been finding it hard to get work.

Magistrates fined Wyatt £66 and ordered him to pay £85 costs and a £30 victim surcharge.