A family man who ran a sophisticated operation selling bootleg DVDs was led weeping to the cells at Bradford Crown Court after he was locked up for five months yesterday.
Aftab Butt, 47, was caught throwing incriminating items over his garden fence when his home was raided by Trading Standards officers in August last year.
Butt, of Hawthorne Avenue, Thornbury, Bradford, pleaded guilty to 20 offences relating to the possession and distribution of pirate DVDs.
Prosecutor Freddie Apfel told the court it was the second time Butt had committed offences involving counterfeit DVDs.
In May 2008, he was sentenced at Leeds Magistrates’ Court to six months’ imprisonment suspended for 12 months for very similar offences.
Mr Apfel said the new offences included one of obstructing a West Yorkshire Trading Standards Service officer
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