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Record tobacco fine referred back to Magistrates’ Court over concerns about fairness

Archive image of Gibraltar's Supreme Court. Photo by Johnny Bugeja.

A Supreme Court judge has ordered the Magistrates’ Court to reconsider a record £118,000 fine imposed on a low-paid storekeeper convicted of unlawfully possessing around 6,000 cartons of cigarettes, ruling the lower court failed to properly examine whether he could realistically pay the sum. Pedro Gomez Arroyo was fined in April 2021 after pleading guilty...

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