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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
By David Harrison Last Updated: 3:44PM GMT 08 Nov 2008Senior officials at Hackney council ordered the inquiry after The Sunday Telegraph revealed last week that three former inspectors were instructed to single out Colin Hunt, 60 and his sister Janet, 64, who run stalls at Ridley Road market in east London. The investigation will be led by Mark Norman, 45, a former chief legal officer...
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An Englishman's Castle (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
Whistle-blowers say council targeted 'metric martyrs' - Telegraph Three former Hackney Council inspectors have told how they were instructed to single out Colin Hunt, 60 - one of the original metric martyrs - and his sister, Janet Devers, 64, for...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 25/10/2008
... including selling fruit and vegetables in pounds and ounces. Mrs Devers, whose mother Irene Hunt started the family market stall in the 1930s, said: "I was convicted just before the minister announced that such prosecutions should not be brought and I hope the courts will see that my conviction was unfair. "I believe I have been made a scapegoat in all this because the council wanted to...