FEARS have been raised that black-marketeers are profiting from the Coronavirus crisis.

FEARS have been raised that black-marketeers are profiting from the Coronavirus crisis.

A disgusted resident has snapped a trader selling toilets rolls from a van in Water Street Car Park, Wigton, on Saturday morning.

The woman, who did not want to be named, said that she and her family had been looking for toilet roll in supermarkets across the area for her parents and grandparents.

She however said she was unsuccessful because shop shelves are bare because of panic buying - despite calls for restraint from retailers.

The woman, who did not want to be named, said: “It is absolutely awful.

“I really just can’t believe it, we’ve been trying to buy toilet paper for our elderly grandparents.

“I’ve heard they’ve been sold on eBay but nothing like this, they are standing in the carpark bragging about it.

"How much must it be going for? It’s shameful, it’s such as sad situation.”