Trial date set for restaurant owner charged over customer's peanut allergy death
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Version 0 of 1. The owner of an Indian restaurant charged with manslaughter after a customer died following an allergic reaction to peanuts is due to go on trial next year. Mohammed Zaman, 52, owner of the Indian Garden restaurant in Easingwold, North Yorkshire, is charged with the manslaughter of Paul Wilson, 38, who had a severe anaphylactic shock after buying a curry in January 2014. The defendant did not enter any pleas at a hearing at Teesside crown court, during which a trial date was set for 25 April. As well as manslaughter by gross negligence, the restaurant boss is charged with perverting the course of justice by forging a food safety training certificate, an immigration offence relating to the employee who served the contaminated meal, and food safety offences. Robert Smith QC, defending, told the court a number of expert witnesses in pathology, food hygiene, clinical medicine and accountancy will be needed. Judge Simon Bourne-Arton bailed Zaman, from Huntington, York. |