An Indian restaurant owner has been found guilty of killing an allergy sufferer with a peanut curry. The stingy hotel owner, Mohammed Zaman, has been jailed for six years. Paul Wilson, 38, had specifically asked for ‘no nuts’ when ordering a chicken tikka masala takeaway at Indian Garden, North Yorkshire in January 2014. But he was later found dead in a toilet at his home in Helperby after suffering a severe anaphylactic shock.
Zaman denied the charges, but was convicted of gross negligence manslaughter following a trial at Teesside Crown Court. Zaman swapped almond powder for cheaper groundnut mix, which contained peanuts, ‘in pursuit of profit’, Judge Simon Bourne-Arton said.
