A MAN who was convicted of misleading customers over the failed Lapland New Forest attraction is due back in court today.

Henry Mears, 60, is set to appear at Bristol Crown Court for an offence of contempt of court.

Mears was jailed for 13 months in March, along with his brother Victor Mears, 67, following a two-month trial at Bristol Crown Court.

Jurors found both men from Brighton guilty of five counts of engaging in a commercial practice which was a misleading action and three charges of engaging in a commercial practice, which was a misleading omission.

The trial heard how the brothers could have made more than £1million from 10,000 advanced ticket sales for the park at Matchams near Ringwood.

Advertising offered visitors a winter wonderland with snow-covered log cabins, a nativity scene, husky dogs, polar bears and a Christmas market.

But instead, disappointed families turned up to the attraction to find fairy lights strung from trees and a broken ice rink.

Within days of the attraction opening in November, 2008, hundreds of disgruntled customers complained to trading standards.

But in May the Mears brothers won their right to appeal their conviction following allegations of misconduct by one of the trial jurors.

Henry Mear’s contempt proceedings, before Judge Carol Hagen, are expected to last one and a half days.