Image caption Mohammed Zaman was owner of the Indian Garden restaurant in Easingwold where Paul Wilson ordered a takeaway curry 
 
 A restaurant owner accused of killing a customer who died from an allergic reaction to a curry "put profit before safety", a court has heard. 
 
 Paul Wilson, 38, suffered a severe anaphylactic shock in January 2014 after eating a takeaway from the Indian Garden in Easingwold, North Yorkshire. 
 
 Mohammed Zaman, 52, of Aylesham Court, Huntington, denies manslaughter. 
 
 The restaurant boss "cut corners at every turn", Teesside Crown Court heard. 
 
 When Mr Wilson ordered a takeaway meal from the restaurant, he had made it clear it must be nut-free, the jury heard. 
 
 The court was told "no nuts" was written on the order chit and on the lid of the curry he took to his home in Helperby, near Thirsk. 
 
 He was found dead later the same evening. 
 
 'Ignored all warnings' 
 
 The jury heard Mr Zaman took a "reckless and cavalier attitude to risk" at the restaurants he owned. 
 
 Richard Wright QC, prosecuting, told the court Mr Zaman had swapped from using almond powder to the cheaper groundnut powder, containing peanuts, in June 2013. 
 
 Despite a warning from his supplier, the prosecutor said, the restaurateur did not warn customers he was using peanut ingredients. 
 
 Image copyright Google Image caption The Indian Garden restaurant pictured in 2011 
 
 A week before Mr Wilson's death, Mr Wright said, a trading standards officer found evidence of peanuts in another meal which was said to have been peanut-free, and discovered a box labelled blanched ground peanut in the kitchen of Mr Zaman's Jaipur Spice restaurant in Easingwold. 
 
 The officer told staff all customers must be informed chefs were using peanuts, the court heard. 
 
 "Mohammed Zaman received numerous warnings that he was putting his customers' health, and potentially their lives, at risk," Mr Wright said. 
 
 "Tragically for Paul Wilson, Mohammed Zaman took none of those opportunities and ignored all of the warnings he was given." 
 
 The prosecution said the restaurateur knew the food he served "posed a serious health risk". 
 
 Mr Wright said: "Time and again he ignored the danger and did not protect his customers." 
 
 Mr Zaman has also pleaded not guilty to perverting the course of justice, and six food safety offences. ||||| Curry can be lethal, but probably not for the reason you think. 
 
 While the fiery heat of curry dishes like the Bombay Burner can induce hallucinations, it would take an ungodly amount of chilli heat to actually kill you—apparently, somewhere in the ballpark of three pounds of “extreme chilies” in concentrated powder form. 
 
 Sadly, for one UK man, death by curry came in the far more subtle form of peanut allergy, along with what appears to be a heap of gross negligence on the part of a restaurant owner. 
 
 Paul Wilson, 38, a pub manager from Helperby, North Yorkshire died following a severe allergic reaction to a takeout curry made with a ground nut mix containing peanuts, instead of the usual almond powder. 
 
 According to prosecutors in the ensuing manslaughter trial, Mohammed Zaman, owner of The Indian Garden restaurant, knew full well that his cost-cutting blend of nuts could be potentially harmful and had even been warned by his supplier about the dangers of a blend containing peanuts. 
 
 Not only did Zaman continue using the blend, the State’s case alleges, but he also failed to warn customers. In fact, the takeaway package containing Paul Wilson’s final meal even had “no nuts” written on top of it, as per his request, and even after his death, Zaman allegedly continued using the peanut-laced blend. 
 
 “Mohammed Zaman received numerous warnings that he was putting his customers’ health, and potentially their lives, at risk,” Crown prosecutor Richard Wright told the jury in the case, according to the Press Association. “Tragically for Paul Wilson, Mohammed Zaman took none of those opportunities and ignored all of the warnings he was given.” 
 
 The most staggering of those warnings was probably when a 17-year-old girl with a peanut allergy had to be treated at a hospital after eating one of Zaman’s curries. Luckily, she was treated with an EpiPen and didn’t die. 
 
 “His was a reckless and cavalier attitude to risk and one that we, the prosecution, would describe as grossly negligent,” Wright told jurors. “The evidence will establish that Mohammed Zaman put profit before safety and that he cut corners at every turn.” 
 
 Because of his apparent carelessness and numerous red flags, Zaman was charged with manslaughter by gross negligence, perverting the course of justice, and six food safety offences. Still, Zaman’s defense lawyer has yet to ley out his case, in which he denies all charges brought before the court. The trial is expected to last three weeks. ||||| A MAN with a severe peanut allergy died after eating a curry from a Yorkshire restaurant whose owner repeatedly ignored warnings that he could be putting customers’ lives at risk, a court has heard. 
 
 Paul Wilson, 38, was found dead at his home in Helperby, North Yorkshire, after buying a takeaway containing peanuts from the Indian Garden restaurant owned by Mohammed Zaman in January 2014, Teesside Crown Court was told. 
 
 Customer Paul Wilson 
 
 Zaman, 53, has gone on trial accused of Mr Wilson’s manslaughter after he took a “reckless and cavalier attitude to risk” and “put profit before safety” at the restaurants he owned, the jury heard. 
 
 Richard Wright QC, prosecuting, told the court Zaman had swapped from using almond powder to the cheaper groundnut powder, containing peanuts, in June 2013 but, despite a warning from his supplier, did not warn customers that he was using peanut ingredients. 
 
 Just weeks before Mr Wilson died, a 17-year-old girl was treated in hospital for a reaction caused by a peanut allergy after eating a curry from another restaurant owned by Zaman, the court heard. 
 
 She was assured by staff that the meal would not contain peanuts, the jury was told. 
 
 Mr Wright said that a week before Mr Wilson’s death, a trading standards officer found evidence of peanuts in a meal she had been told was peanut-free and discovered a box labelled blanched ground peanut in the kitchen of Zaman’s Jaipur Spice restaurant in Easingwold, North Yorkshire. 
 
 She told staff that customers in all of Zaman’s restaurants must be informed they were using peanuts, the court heard. 
 
 Mr Wright said that, on the night of his death on January 30 2014, Mr Wilson told staff at the Indian Garden restaurant, in Easingwold, that his meal must be nut-free. 
 
 He said the restaurant had written “no nuts” on his order and on the lid of his curry. 
 
 Mr Wright said: “Mohammed Zaman received numerous warnings that he was putting his customers’ health, and potentially their lives, at risk. 
 
 “Tragically for Paul Wilson, Mohammed Zaman took none of those opportunities and ignored all of the warnings he was given. 
 
 “His was a reckless and cavalier attitude to risk and one that we, the prosecution, would describe as grossly negligent.” 
 
 Mr Wright added: “Time and again he ignored the danger and did not protect his customers. 
 
 “The evidence will establish that Mohammed Zaman put profit before safety and that he cut corners at every turn.” 
 
 Zaman blamed others when he was interviewed by police and “took no personal responsibility”, Mr Wright said. 
 
 The court heard that, after requests from trading standards, signs were displayed in Zaman’s restaurants stating that meals could not be guaranteed nut-free. 
 
 But Mr Wright said a test purchaser went to the Indian Garden the day after Mr Wilson’s death and was assured by a staff member that they could buy a nut-free curry. 
 
 On the same day, Zaman rang his supplier and asked to swap his remaining groundnut powder for almond, the court heard. 
 
 Mr Wright said: “At last, Mohammed Zaman did something responsible to protect his customers. But it was too little and for Paul Wilson it was tragically too late.” 
 
 Zaman, from Huntington, York, denies manslaughter by gross negligence, perverting the course of justice and six food safety offences. 
 
 The trial continues.
– A most unusual manslaughter trial is unfolding in the UK, one that revolves around "death by curry," as a post at Munchies puts it. Prosecutors accuse restaurant owner Mohammed Zaman of subbing in peanuts for almonds in his ground mix to save money and deliberately concealing the switch to customers, reports the BBC. That proved deadly for 38-year-old Paul Wilson of North Yorkshire, who picked up a take-out order from Indian Garden from in Easingwold and later died after going into anaphylactic shock. Wilson suffered from a severe peanut allergy, something he pointed out to the staff—the words "no nuts" were written on the lid of his order. A few weeks before his death, a 17-year-old girl nearly died after eating food from another one of Zaman's restaurants, reports the Telegraph. When her mother called afterward to ask whether it contained peanuts, she was told it did not, say prosecutors. After that incident, an inspector found a box of ground peanuts in a kitchen of one of Zaman's restaurants and ordered that all of his customers be informed about its use, something that allegedly never happened. "Mohammed Zaman received numerous warnings that he was putting his customers’ health, and potentially their lives, at risk," says a prosecutor, per the Yorkshire Post. "His was a reckless and cavalier attitude to risk and one that we, the prosecution, would describe as grossly negligent.” Zaman, strapped for cash, allegedly told his food supplier to sub in peanuts in order to cut his cost in half, then ignored the supplier's demand that he inform customers of the change. He has pleaded not guilty to the manslaughter charge. (A California couple says they were booted from their flight over their son's peanut allergy.)