Can we talk about the caterer who sat making kebabs while sitting opposite a corpse?

Mmm, hygiene.

Kebabs made as corpse lay nearby

A fast food shop owner has been banned from running any kind of food business after he was found preparing food while a man's corpse lay on a nearby sofa.

Police called to the Pappu Sweet Centre in Wolverhampton, in August, discovered the body near the main kitchen.

Owner Jaswinder Singh, 45, was preparing food nearby.

A council spokesman said it was one of the worst cases environment health officers had come across. The man's death was not suspicious, police said.

Flies on food

Wolverhampton Magistrates Court heard about a long list of hygiene breaches at the Cannock Road shop.

The court was told that on 27 August a police officer had been called to a report of a dead man there.

A statement of facts, read out to the court, said: "Upon his arrival the officer observed a dead male lying on a sofa at the rear of the main kitchen.

"Sat opposite to him was Mr Singh who was preparing food, making kebabs."

'Awful smell'

The court also heard there was a large number of flies in the room which were landing on food.

There was also an "awful smell", thawing meat which was oozing blood and covered in flies, and a man smoking and spitting on the filthy floor.

The shop was closed immediately.

Environmental health officers had been visiting the shop since October 2007, the court heard.

Mr Singh admitted a string of hygiene offences and was ordered to pay nearly £4,000 in fines and costs.

A spokeswoman for West Midlands Police said the death had not been found to be suspicious and no further action had been taken over the matter.

Councillor Barry Findlay, Wolverhampton City Council's cabinet member for the environment, said the council would not tolerate the public being put at risk.

"We are pleased that the council's actions have resulted in the courts banning this individual from ever running a food business again," he said.

I will admit to being curious as to how this actually came to pass in the first place.

Dude die after eating a fly-blown kebab, probably.

"died"

There was also an "awful smell", thawing meat which was oozing blood and covered in flies, and a man smoking and spitting on the filthy floor.

Was this man employed solely to smoke and spit on the filthy floor I wonder?

Nice work if you can get it.

Maybe the dead man had a doner card?

There was (...) and a man SMOKING and SPITTING on the FILTHY floor.

(sorry, I just think mildly fictitious sounding claims need emphasis.)

What do you do for a living?
I spit on the floor in a kebab shop.

sheesh