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| A wine bar where an 18-year-old girl was seriously injured drinking a cocktail containing liquid nitrogen has admitted health and safety failings. | A wine bar where an 18-year-old girl was seriously injured drinking a cocktail containing liquid nitrogen has admitted health and safety failings. |
| Gaby Scanlon, of Heysham, Lancashire, had to have her stomach removed after drinking the Nitro-Jagermeister shot. | |
| Oscar's Wine Bar in Lancaster admitted at Preston Crown Court to failing to ensure the cocktail was safe to consume after the incident in October 2012. | |
| Charges were also dropped against barman Matthew Harding, from Lancaster. | Charges were also dropped against barman Matthew Harding, from Lancaster. |
| The firm's director Andrew Dunn, of Old Earswick, York, pleaded not guilty to his part in the company's failings. | |
| The court heard prosecutors would offer no evidence against him if he made a £20,000 payment towards court costs before the wine bar's sentencing on 17 September. | |
| The company, registered in Swinton, South Yorkshire admitted one count of failing in the duty of an employer to ensure the safety of persons not in its employment. | |
| A not guilty plea was accepted from bar employee Mr Harding, of George Street, Lancaster. | |
| It had been alleged he presented the Nitro-Jagermeister at the customer's table when it was still producing cold nitrogen gases and was unsafe to drink. | |
| 'Expanding stomach' | |
| Miss Scanlon, now aged 20, was celebrating her birthday with friends at Oscar's when she drank the shot. | |
| She said her stomach began to expand and a CT scan at Lancaster Royal Infirmary found a large perforation. | |
| The student spent three weeks in hospital as doctors removed her stomach and connected her oesophagus directly to her small bowel. | |
| Welcoming the guilty plea, a statement from her solicitor Patricia Noone said the family hoped the case would serve as a warning to all bars and restaurants to take "take responsibility for what they are serving to members of the public". | |
| It added: "She now suffers episodes of agonising pain and has been hospitalised several times. She has to avoid certain foods and can no longer enjoy eating." | |
| The statement continued that Miss Scanlon cannot work full-time, adding: "She has had to watch all her friends go off to university while she struggles to get her life back on track." |