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Restauranteur Found Guilty of Manslaughter; Jailed over Allergy Death

posted by martyb on Friday May 27 2016, @02:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the 'no-nuts'-means-'NO-NUTS!' dept.

butthurt writes:

BBC News reports that a restaurant operator in the North Yorkshire county of England has been tried, found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to six years' imprisonment for the death of a customer who died after ordering chicken tikka masala with "no nuts" because he was allergic to peanuts. He died from what is believed to have been anaphylactic shock. Prior to the man's death, the restaurants had already been under investigation because another customer had a non-fatal allergic reaction after she was allegedly served peanuts contrary to her request.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 27 2016, @10:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 27 2016, @10:44PM (#351807)

    > they denied using peanuts and said their curries only contained almonds.

    The order said "no nuts" so even if they had used the original recipe he still would have got nuts.
    Maybe he's only allergic to peanuts, but if they are just going to say "nuts" then using almonds wouldn't have been any more honest.