A WEMBLEY Market trader has been electronically tagged and given a suspended sentence for “ripping off” shoppers.

Xiaoudan Wu, also known as Kelly Wu, was caught running a stall selling stock consisting almost entirely of knock-off products in November last year.

Trading standards officers seized almost 900 ed hardy clothing and raided two storage facilities linked to the 43-year-old elsewhere in Brent on the back of the operation.

Those sites contained just short of 1,300 items of counterfeit clothing, including handbags, jewellery, shoes and watches.

The goods, worth around £69,000 altogether, were replicas of brands including Louis Vuitton, Dolce & Gabanna, Ed Hardy, Christian Audigier, True Religion, Chanel and Burberry.

The Harlesden resident was handed a six month prison sentence, suspended for a year, at Harrow Crown Court on Friday.

Bill Bilon, of Brent and Harrow Trading Standards, said Wu was “blatantly ripping off” Brent and Harrow residents and shoppers traveling to the market from other parts of the country.

He said: “Not only are the shoppers being ripped off, but the legitimate traders both in the market and in the close surrounding area are facing unfair competition from the cheap and poor quality products being offered as genuine.

“I am confident that our continuing successes in both the magistrates and crown courts against counterfeit traders, will act as a deterrent to others.”

Wu was helped by three employees, two of whom were cautioned and one who fled the country after being released on bail.