The owner of a filthy fly-infested takeaway has been fined.

When council inspectors visited the business they discovered flies entering the kitchen from an uncovered outside drain.

Owner Shameem Akhtar, 33, had failed to keep clean his Zeeshan premises on Manchester Road West in Little Hulton, ignoring warnings from Salford’s environmental health inspectors.

He pleaded guilty at Salford magistrates to four food hygiene offences court in a case brought by the council.

Evidence was also presented at court to show a poor standard of cleaning throughout the premises.

Food was being stored at the wrong temperatures in fridges, there was no hot water connected to the hand-wash basin, and equipment was not being properly maintained.

There were dirty chopping boards, grease-ridden surfaces, missing tiles to walls and damaged ceilings, the court heard.

Akhtar, of Eric Street, Oldham, was ordered to clean up his act. When officers visited two days later some effort had been made to put things right but not to a satisfactory standard.

Akhtar was served with six food hygiene improvement notices and one for health and safety for having no proof that gas appliances were being correctly maintained.

In October, officers went back to find conditions had partly improved but not enough to comply with one of the food hygiene improvement notices.

Akhtar was fined £2,000 in total – £500 per offence –and ordered to pay £1,000 towards court costs.

Coun Ray Mashiter, Salford council’s lead member for environment, said: “This owner’s dirty premises posed as a serious health risk to the public and there is no excuse for it.

“The individual ignored several warnings about the poor standards of cleaning and we had no choice but to take action on behalf of the public.”

The Zeeshan takeaway is no longer in business.

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