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Takeaway nut curry death: Restaurant owner Mohammed Zaman guilty | |
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A "reckless" restaurant owner has been found guilty of killing a customer who had an allergic reaction to a curry. | |
Paul Wilson, 38, suffered a severe anaphylactic shock in January 2014 after eating a takeaway containing nuts from the Indian Garden in Easingwold, North Yorkshire. | |
A jury found Mohammed Zaman, 52, of Huntington, guilty of manslaughter after a trial at Teesside Crown Court. | |
The court heard he cut corners by using cheaper ingredients containing peanuts. | The court heard he cut corners by using cheaper ingredients containing peanuts. |
Zaman, who is due to be sentenced later, denied he was responsible but a jury was told he switched almond powder for a cheaper groundnut mix, which contained peanuts. | |
Mr Wilson, a bar manager from Helperby, North Yorkshire, specified "no nuts" when he ordered a chicken tikka masala - an instruction which was written on his order and on the lid of his takeaway, the court heard. | |
'Cavalier attitude' | |
He died three weeks after a different customer with a nut allergy bought a meal from one of Mr Zaman's six restaurants and had a reaction requiring hospital treatment. | |
The restaurateur had a "reckless and cavalier attitude to risk" and "put profit before safety" at all his outlets, the jury was told. | |
Zaman was almost £300,000 in debt and cut costs by using the cheaper nut powder and by employing untrained, illegal workers, the court heard. | |
He claimed he left managers to run his restaurants and that included ordering stock and hiring staff, telling jurors he was not on the premises when the curry was ordered. | |
The father-of-four was found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence and six food safety offences. He was cleared of a charge of perverting the course of justice. |