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Thomas Robinson duped establishments like Edinburgh's elite Balmoral and other big hotels by hawking "authentically Scottish" single-estate tea from his so-called Wee Tea Plantation. He even ...
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A con artist swindled upmarket hotels and shops out of more than £550,000 by hawking counterfeit Scottish tea. At 52, Thomas Robinson conducted his swindle through "The Wee Tea Plantation ...
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A convicted "conman" who boasted his home-grown Scottish tea was the Queen's "favourite" tricked five-star hotels into buying and serving the fake beverage. Thomas Robinson, 55, lied to the ...
Operating as The Wee Tea Plantation, he then fraudulently sold it to high-profile clients in the hospitality sector, including luxury hotels and retailers, between January 2014 and February 2019.
Operating as The Wee Tea Plantation, he then fraudulently sold it to high-profile clients in the hospitality sector, including luxury hotels and retailers, between January 2014 and February 2019.
He claimed he’d been told that tea he had supplied to London’s five-star Dorchester Hotel was ‘the Queen’s favourite’. A court heard he bought tea plants from a nursery in Sussex and ...