A pensioner and her son have admitted using a car boot sale to flog hundreds of pirate DVDS ranging from porn to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Today trading standards officers said they hoped the prosecution of the pair, found with a £5,000 stash of the illegal goods, would act as a deterrent to stop other counterfeit cheats in East Lancashire.

The warning came after Paul Mulleny, 25, of Cleveleys Road, Blackburn, admitted 13 specimen counts of supplying counterfeit DVDs and his 65-year-old mum Lillian Mulleny, of Montague Street, admitted aiding and abetting her son with all 13 offences.

They were both handed a two-year conditional discharge and ordered to fork out £313 costs by Leyland magistrates who said their previous good character and early guilty pleas had been considered.

Prosecutor Nick McNamara said the scam was uncovered when trading standards officials attended a stall the pair were running at a car boot sale in Botany Bay, Chorley, on July 31.

Suspecting the DVDs might be counterfeit they made a test purchase the Fantastic Four which had only just come out at the cinema and was not due to be released on DVD until December.

After confirming the DVD was counterfeit, the officers returned and seized 337 copied DVDs found on their stall and in their vehicle.

Mr McNamara said the bulk of the DVDs "worth £5,000 if they were originals" were mainstream movies such as 2005 release Charlie and The Chocolate Factory.

But he added: "Two of the discs found in the car were of a extremely pornographic nature."

Defending, Deborah Morgan said Mrs Mulleny had set up the stall to sell genuine computer accessories.

But when trade dried up she decided to purchase the DVDs from a car boot sale in Manchester as "they appeared to be doing a roaring trade with young people the sort of people she wanted to attract on the stall," Ms Morgan said.

"The explicit DVDs were bought as part of a job lot and there is no suggestion they were on display."

Mr McNamara, employed by Lancashire Trading Standards said: "We would like counterfeiters to be aware that these cases prove that lancashire is not the place for them to do their business."