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| Indian restaurant owner charged with manslaughter after customer dies from peanut allergy | Indian restaurant owner charged with manslaughter after customer dies from peanut allergy |
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| The owner of an Indian restaurant in North Yorkshire has been charged with manslaughter by gross negligence following the death of one of his customers. | |
| Paul Wilson, 38, had a fatal allergic reaction to peanuts after eating a takeaway curry made by the Indian Garden restaurant in Easingwold in January last year. | Paul Wilson, 38, had a fatal allergic reaction to peanuts after eating a takeaway curry made by the Indian Garden restaurant in Easingwold in January last year. |
| Mr Wilson, a bar manager from Sheffield, who had a six-year-old son, collapsed and died in the bathroom of the Oak Tree pub where he worked in Helperby, near Thirsk. | Mr Wilson, a bar manager from Sheffield, who had a six-year-old son, collapsed and died in the bathroom of the Oak Tree pub where he worked in Helperby, near Thirsk. |
| He suffered a severe anaphylactic shock - and his death prompted a major investigation by trading standards officers into food fraud, where peanuts are used in place of almonds. | He suffered a severe anaphylactic shock - and his death prompted a major investigation by trading standards officers into food fraud, where peanuts are used in place of almonds. |
| In the first case of its kind in Britain, Mohammed Khalique Zaman, 52, from York, who owns a string of award-winning outlets - including the Indian Garden - has now been charged with manslaughter by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). | In the first case of its kind in Britain, Mohammed Khalique Zaman, 52, from York, who owns a string of award-winning outlets - including the Indian Garden - has now been charged with manslaughter by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). |
| He has also been charged with perverting the course of justice and an employment offence under the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006. | He has also been charged with perverting the course of justice and an employment offence under the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006. |
| Mr Zaman is due to appear at Northallerton magistrates court on April 24. | |
| Peter Mann, head of the complex casework unit at the CPS Yorkshire and Humberside, said there was "sufficient evidence" to bring charges against him, The Guardian reported. | Peter Mann, head of the complex casework unit at the CPS Yorkshire and Humberside, said there was "sufficient evidence" to bring charges against him, The Guardian reported. |
| Mr Wilson died before the introduction of new laws stipulating that caterers must provide allergy information on unpackaged foods. | Mr Wilson died before the introduction of new laws stipulating that caterers must provide allergy information on unpackaged foods. |
| Around one in ten deaths a year in Britain are due to allergies to foods like nuts. | Around one in ten deaths a year in Britain are due to allergies to foods like nuts. |