The owner of a food shop in Kensington has been ordered to pay £1,000 and costs after pleading guilty to six breaches of food safety and hygiene regulations.
Itoro John, 36, who runs the African Food Store on Prescot Road, was ordered to pay £1,000 and costs of over £5,000 to the Liverpool City Council after food hygiene inspectors discovered his shop was in a disgusting condition last February. The shop was immediately shut down as it presented an 'imminent risk to health'.
Mouse droppings were found on surfaces in the shop where open foods were kept and beneath shelves storing baby products. A total of 11 dead mice were also found under shelves holding food, as were gnawed food packets and a build-up of food debris which the rodents fed on thanks to the lack of effective cleaning taking place.
