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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Nick Forbes

Man who sold ordinary tea as unique Scottish variety found guilty of fraud

A man has been found guilty of fraud after passing off ordinary tea as a unique Scotland-grown variety (Anthony Devlin/PA) - (PA Archive)

A man who passed off ordinary tea as a unique, Scottish-grown variety and sold it to luxury hotels and retailers has been found guilty of fraud.

Thomas Robinson, 52, claimed to have cultivated the tea at his Perthshire estate using innovative techniques, but in reality it was sourced from wholesalers outside Scotland.

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