From: The Spalding & South Holland Voice
A repeat offender off-licence in Spalding has been caught selling the type of fake cigarettes linked to fatal house fires.
Police and Trading Standards officers raided Baltic in Winsover Road and seized 2,340 cigarettes. Among the haul including non-duty paid and counterfeit goods were packets of fake Pect. Cigarettes of this type have been linked to a number of house fires, including the Spalding one which killed June Buffham in 2012.
The raid followed a test purchase by a member of a pool of Eastern Europeans helping the police crackdown.
