A Hatch End shopkeeper has admitted to locking a teenage girl in an off-licence in November last year.
Vaithilingam Poovendranathan, 59, from Hurley Road in Greenford, pleaded guilty to one charge of false imprisonment at Harrow Crown Court.
In November last year, police responded to a report of a 14-year-old girl being locked in a shop on Uxbridge Road. Officers arrived and found the girl, who had been locked inside for about 10 minutes, unharmed.
He is scheduled to be sentenced at Harrow Crown Court on December 18.
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