From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: U.S. Metric Association <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: June 20, 2001 13:44 Subject: [USMA:13944] UK: New prosecution >http://pages.thisislondon.co.uk:80/html/news.html > > Metric martyr 'did it for > customers' Presumably, then, his customers will chip in to pay any fines which are imposed on him. Duncan > > London's first "metric martyr" was defiant today after being > found guilty of selling fruit and vegetables in imperial > measures and ordered to pay �4,000 legal costs. > > Market trader Colin Hunt, 52, speaking outside Thames > magistrates' court, Bow, vowed to carry on selling in the old > measures. > > "I'm doing this for the customers. My mum would have > been proud of me," he said. > > Trading standard officers visited his stall in Ridley Road > market, Hackney, in September, and found items displayed > for sale in pounds. Hunt, of Woodford Green, said he had > bought a metric scale but customers found it confusing. He > was given a 12-month conditional discharge.
