A fraudster who tricked luxury hotels and stores into buying "Scottish-grown tea" that was actually from abroad has been ...

Thomas Robinson, 55, rented land on a former sheep farm near Loch Tay and began supplying the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh ...

The sentencing of a fraudster who passed off ordinary tea as a unique, Scottish-grown variety and sold it to luxury hotels, ...

Thomas Robinson, 55, was locked up at Stirling Sheriff Court on Wednesday. The crook, of Dunkeld, made more than half a ...

Victims included five-star hotels like London's Dorchester and Edinburgh's Balmoral which are known for their grand afternoon ...

Thomas Robinson falsely claimed his Wee Tea Plantation business was growing its own tea at a Perthshire estate ...

Thomas Robinson, 55, has been jailed for three and a half years after he conned top luxury hotels, shoppers and farmers with ...

Thomas Robinson, 55, claimed to have cultivated the tea at his Perthshire estate using innovative techniques but was convicted of fraud in May.

A fraudster who earned more than £500,000 by deceiving luxury hotels and stores into buying “unique” Scottish-grown tea that ...

The court heard how Robinson pretended to customers he had used innovative growing techniques - including a biodegradable polymer - to cultivate premium Camellia Sinensis tea plants.. He then ...

Representatives of the Balmoral Hotel, the Dorchester Hotel and a company acting on behalf of Fortnum & Mason were among ...