The owner of a “dim and grisly” Wolverhampton kebab house has been banned from running any other food businesses and branded a “hazard to the public” by a judge (Photos Below).
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Imran Khan, aged 34, of Aubrey Road, Birmingham, formerly ran Hot ‘N’ Spicy in Broad Street, Wolverhampton city centre.
He appeared before Wolverhampton Crown Court on Wednesday July 20 for sentence after previously admitting 20 charges relating to hygiene and health and safety breaches at the premises which is now under new management.
Wolverhampton City Council successfully prosecuted the case against Khan who was served with an immediate hygiene prohibition order banning him from being involved in the management of any other food business until further notice.
He also received a suspended jail term of six months to run concurrently for each of five offences of non-compliance with food hygiene improvement notices and two offences of failing to comply with health and safety improvement notices. He was also ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid community work and given and evening curfew.
In addition, he was fined a total of £6,000 for 13 offences relating to his failure to properly store and dispose of waste in breach of the Environmental Protection Act (1990).
Khan was ordered to pay court costs of £3,000.
The prosecution was launched after Hot N Spicy was visited more than 100 times by council environmental health officers between November 2008 and August 2010.
Food safety inspectors found a catalogue of problems during their visits including lack of refrigeration required to keep high risk foods at the required temperature, poor hygiene practices, a lack of ventilation, broken equipment and a deep fat fryer containing scorching hot oil that was balanced precariously on house bricks.
Despite continued action by the council to work with Khan to sort out the problems including advice, warnings and the serving of notices, he still failed to take adequate measures to comply with the law.
There were also long-standing issues with regards to rubbish from the business not being properly contained or disposed of. It was a common site to see uncovered bins overflowing and food scraps and other waste strewn across the communal yard at the rear of the restaurant which attracted vermin.
During sentencing, the judge – Recorder Stephen Thomas – told Khan: “You are clearly a hazard in terms of food preparation and hygiene and to those people who go out to buy and consume food. The history of your dealings with food preparation really is quite lamentable.
“It is no thanks to you that nobody was hurt, injured or made ill, but they could have been. It seems that you didn’t care.
“What we have heard paints a very dim and grisly picture of the premises you were running. The people of Wolverhampton deserve better than having people like you running food businesses. There were systematic failures to implement a proper safety regime and systematic failures to heed the advice and guidance of the local authority.”
Nick Edwards, Wolverhampton City Council’s assistant director for prosperity, said: “We will also prosecute those who put the health of the people of Wolverhampton at risk in this way. The judge has made it very clear in this case that the courts take a dim view of those who flagrantly breach laws that exist to protect people in food establishments.”
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