A Southall phone shop and its director have been fined more than £5000 for stocking dangerous phone chargers and fake designer phone accessories.

Mr Tarlochan Sachdeva, director of MyFone Accessories Ltd, based in the Southall Enterprise Centre, Bridge Street appeared at Ealing Magistrates Court in September 2012.

Both Mr Sachdeva and the company pleaded guilty to seven charges of having for sale counterfeit phone covers, as well as three charges of having for sale unsafe mobile phone chargers.

The company and Mr Sachdeva were each fined £1,575 for stocking the fake phone covers including Gucci, Blackberry, Chanel and Hello Kitty.

Both were fined a further £1,020 each for having for sale unsafe phone chargers, along with a victim surcharge totalling £30.

The company will also pay the council’s costs of £6.462.13. This brings the total to be paid by the director and the company to £11,682.

Ealing Council Trading officers visited My Fone Accessories in July last year and seized more than 2000 counterfeit mobile phone covers worth over £20,000. They also seized more than 300 electrically unsafe and potentially dangerous mobile phone chargers.

The chargers failed the required safety standard and posed a danger to the user.

Councillor Ranjit Dheer, cabinet member for Safer Communities said: "Unsafe chargers are prone to overheating and can cause fires and electric shocks."

"By selling these items they were putting their customers in danger and I hope the size of the fine serves as a warning to other businesses tempted to break the law in this way."