6:06pm Monday 8th February 2010
THE owner of a Leigh restaurant which had a cockroach-infested kitchen has been fined more than £4,000 and ordered to pay £1,300 costs.
Mohammed Miah, who owns the Indian Valley Restaurant in London Road, Leigh, pleaded guilty on Friday to charges of failing to have adequate pest control, failing to keep his premises clean and in good order and failing to protect against food contamination.
Basildon Magistrates Court sentenced him to pay a fine of £4,200 as well as an extra £1,300 in costs.
The store was closed following an inspection by environmental health officers and Miah was ordered to carry out extensive work before he was permitted to re-open on June 22.
The court heard a further inspection on Friday, December 4 revealed satisfactory standards were operating.
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