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A shop selling tops bearing the words “Cocaine and Caviar” has been slammed for “glamorising drugs”.

Rebelious, a fashion store in St John’s Shopping Centre popular with teenage girls, is selling the sweatshirts for £10.

Sam Rusul, owner of the independent city centre shop, said he was happy to stock the clothing because it was a brand also sold in other places.

But mum-of-one Heidi Clark, from Crosby, says she is concerned about the message the tops are giving out.

She said: “I was disgusted. I work with young people and to sell a jumper that says ‘cocaine and caviar’ targeting young women is a disgrace.

“In my eyes it is glamorising the use of cocaine when it’s an illegal drug.

“I can only assume it’s targeting young women because it’s a shop full of trendy young womenswear.”

When the Sunday ECHO went into Rebelious to investigate we found twelve young women browsing in the store.

The majority of these were thought to be aged between 14 and 16 years old.

The “Cocaine and Caviar” sweatshirt was available in both blue and grey and was also displayed on a mannequin in the centre of Rebelious.

Asked if he had any concerns that the shop was glamorising drugs by selling the tops, Mr Rasul said: “Not really, because it’s a brand. People are buying it because it’s a brand, not because of the words on it.

“It’s a brand that other places sell.”

The “Cocaine and Caviar” brand has its own website where clothes, priced in dollars, are available to order.

There are also several “Cocaine & Caviar Clothing Co” Facebook pages.

One of these, which has 21,448 “likes”, contains a post a member of the public made earlier this month of a picture of drugs with the words “good quality of cocaine for sale”.

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