DanRobinson published Ilkeston shopkeeper jailed for possessing illegal tobacco worth...

A shopkeeper has been jailed for four months after possessing illegal tobacco worth more than £4,600.Melanie Clinton, who runs Pound Plus in Bath Street, Ilkeston, and Melanie's Mini Market in Loscoe Road, Heanor, was sentenced at Derby Crown Court on Friday.The 24-year-old, of Dover Street, Derby, had earlier pleaded guilty to 12 charges of selling and possessing counterfeit tobacco products and three charges of possessing unsafe counterfeit tobacco.Her employee Ali Bakhtear, of Brunswick