THE owner of a takeaway which supplied an entire meal containing peanuts to a customer with a nut allergy must pay nearly £15,000.

York Magistrates' Court heard the victim went into anaphylactic shock with breathing difficulties, raised blood pressure, swollen lips and hives on arms and legs during the meal and had to be treated at York Hospital’s Accident and Emergency Department.

His girlfriend warned Shahi Tandoori that he couldn’t eat peanuts or hazelnuts when she ordered food for both of them via the “Just Eat” app on March 15, 2018, and confirmed the allergy warning over the phone.

But when their meal arrived, every dish contained peanut.

The order was chicken tikka masala, onion bhaji, naan bread and rice.

The takeaway in Nunnery Lane had previously been warned by City of York Council environment health officers for supplying food containing peanuts in 2015.

The sole owner of Shahi Tandoori, Mohammed Abdul Alim, 50, of Grosvenor Road, Bradford, pleaded guilty to two food safety charges - one of supplying food that was not as demanded by the consumer and one of supplying food that endangered human health or was unfit for consumption by the consumer.

He was fined £9,000 and ordered to pay £5,562 prosecution costs to City of York Council and a £170 statutory surcharge.

The court heard a public analyst found peanut in every dish.

In an interview under caution, Alim told officers he had rung the girlfriend and discussed the nut allergy information before sending the order.

He did not explain why the food contained peanut.

The court heard that when environment health officers made a test purchase order requesting no peanuts in 2015, the takeaway supplied food containing peanuts. Officers then issued the warning.