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<p>Two brothers could have made more than £1 million by misleading thousands of customers into visiting a Lapland-style theme park, a court has heard.</p>
<p>Visitors to Lapland New Forest were offered a winter wonderland with snow-covered log cabins, a nativity scene, husky dogs, polar bears and other animals, as well as a bustling Christmas market.</p>
<p>Instead of the promised magical festive treat, visitors experienced fairy lights hung from trees and a broken ice rink.</p>
<p>Within days of the attraction opening in November 2008, hundreds of disgruntled visitors to the park on the Hampshire-Dorset border complained to trading standards they had been ripped off, Bristol Crown Court heard.</p>
<p>Less than a week later the attraction closed, with the theme park&#8217;s owners blaming the media and sabotage from &#8220;New Forest villains&#8221; for the decision.</p>
<p>With visitors charged £30 a ticket and with up to 10,000 advance bookings online, the owners were set to make £1.2 million, prosecutor Malcolm Gibney told the court.</p>
<p>The two men behind Lapland New Forest, brothers Victor and Henry Mears, faced a jury accused of eight charges of selling misleading advertising.</p>
<p>The brothers face five charges of engaging in a commercial practice which is a misleading action and three charges of engaging in a commercial practice which is a misleading omission.</p>
<p>Victor Mears, 67, of Selsfield Drive, and Henry Mears, 60, of Coombe Road, both of Brighton, deny all the charges.</p>
<p>The court heard that Victor Mears was the company&#8217;s sole director but was being assisted by his younger brother, who was managing Lapland, and was responsible for the promotion of the event.</p>
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