Peanut curry

Peanut curry death: Restaurant owner Mohammed Zaman jailed

A "reckless" restaurant owner has been jailed for six years for the manslaughter of 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 peanuts from the Indian Garden in Easingwold, North Yorkshire.
Mohammed Zaman, 52, was found guilty at Teesside Crown Court.
The court heard he cut corners by using cheaper ingredients containing peanuts.

In what is thought to be a landmark trial, Zaman, of Aylesham Court, Huntington, denied he was responsible but a jury was told he switched almond powder for a cheaper ground nut 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 peanut 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.
Sentencing him, Judge Simon Bourne-Arton, the Recorder of Middlesbrough, said Zaman had remained "in complete and utter denial" and ignored warnings from officials after 17-year-old Ruby Scott suffered a reaction to a curry, three weeks before Mr Wilson's death.
He said he had thrown away his successful business and property portfolio worth £2m "in pursuit of profit".

Everyone knows these Folks will LIE to you.

I will never buy from them knowing a family member has an Allergy.

I once asked a Punjabi restaurant owner IF he used peanuts in mixes.

he looked guilty as he said  "No"

Jail dem .....

I agree with the Judge. 

I understand that he swapped from using the more expensive almond powder, to the cheaper peanut powder. The thing is that I am allergic to almond, but not to peanut. So where does that leave the likes of me? Is it only white lives that matter?

Such a tragic way to die. The owner deserves those six years in jail or more. He must be shown as an example to Food stores, restaurant and suppliers that lying about ingredients
is potentially harmful to your customer. Food is not something to take so lightly, you can poison someone serving regular food!.