A shop has been refused an alcohol licence due to a husband and wife team’s ‘history of non-compliance’ - from displaying drug paraphernalia to employing illegal workers - at various stores they are connected to. Ryan Newsagent Ltd had applied for a licence to sell alcohol for consumption off the premises at a former hairdressers in Shaw Heath, Stockport. Sole director Monica Pyka was to be the designated supervisor (DPS).
But town hall licensing chiefs heard that Mrs Pyka and her husband Gurinder Singh Sandhu - known locally as ‘Gary’ - ran stores which had failed to meet their obligations. These included not storing CCTV footage appropriately, poor record keeping and inadequate training.
A council report notes how drug paraphernalia was on display at Castle Street in November last year, and was still there in January, despite assurances it would be removed. In the same month Home Office immigration officials found staff at Bloom Street did not have the ‘appropriate right’ to work in the shop.
