AN INDIAN restaurant owner with a "cavalier attitude" to safety has been sentenced to six-years in prison for the manslaughter of a customer with a nut allergy after he supplied him with a curry containing peanuts, reports the Northern Echo.

Paul Wilson, 38, was meticulous about his condition and asked for "no nuts" when staff at the Indian Garden, Easingwold, North Yorkshire, cooked his chicken tikka masala takeaway.

Bar manager Mr Wilson was found slumped in the toilet at his home in Helperby in January 2014 and had died from a severe anaphylactic shock.

Restaurant owner Mohammed Zaman was convicted of gross negligence manslaughter following a trial at Teesside Crown Court at which the jury was told he swapped almond powder in recipes for cheaper groundnut mix, containing peanuts, despite warnings.

The prosecution alleged Zaman, who owned six restaurants in York and North Yorkshire, was almost £300,000 in debt and cut costs by using the cheaper ingredient and by employing untrained, illegal workers.

Mr Wilson died three weeks after a teenaged customer at another of Zaman's restaurants suffered an allergic reaction which required hospital treatment. She had been assured her meal would not contain nuts.

The prosecution said the owner had "put profit before safety" at the restaurants he owned.

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A FATHER and mother were left stunned after a man with learning disabilities scratched deep gashes into their toddler’s face in an unprovoked attack, the Harwich and Manningtree Standard reports.

Chris Scutt, of Stour Close, Dovercourt, was shopping with his wife Jen and 15-month-old son Alvis, in the Tesco store at Brook Retail Park, Clacton.

They alleged that without warning a man, aged in his 50s, launched himself at Alvis, digging his finger nails into the youngster’s face.

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Alvis was given first aid at the store before being taken to Clacton Hospital, where he was treated with antibiotics normally reserved for dog bites.