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Babergh District Council has successfully prosectuted the owner of a Sudbury takeaway for two offences under food safety regulations.
On Friday 4th February 2005 Mrs Shaira Begum Ali, the proprietor of the Bengal Villa (formerly The Mogul) in North Street, Sudbury, pleaded guilty to the offences and was fined a total of £3,000. Babergh Council were awarded £1,430 for their costs in bringing the case to court.
The two offences related to a visit by Babergh’s Environmental Health Officer to The Mogul on the 8th April 2004 when extremely poor standards of food hygiene had been found. Both the premises and equipment within it were in a dirty condition, giving a risk of contamination of food.
The proprietor had been given warnings that conditions needed to improve as far back as December 2003, and a final warning was given in March 2004. Despite the warnings, very little work had been done by the time of the April visit and the Council subsequently brought a prosecution against Mrs Begum Ali.
John Rainer, Senior Environmental Health Officer, said, “Babergh’s warnings gave ample opportunity for the proprietor to put matters right at The Mogul but these had been ignored and left the Council with no choice but to prosecute. This is the third successful food safety prosecution that Babergh has taken in the last six months against businesses in our area and they have all resulted in substantial fines. While the vast majority of our food premises are well run and safe, Babergh will not hesitate to take action against businesses that put the public’s health at risk”.
The Mogul has since been renovated and extended, re-opening as the Bengal Villa. Mrs Begum Ali continues as the proprietor of the Bengal Villa.
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