Ashley Preece of Birmingham Live writes the brazen owner of a revolting fast-food joint is facing additional jail time – after an outbreak of salmonella led to eight people being struck down with food poisoning, including one who was critical in hospital.

 Muhammed Abdul Moueed Khan, from Walsall , and former owner of Blakenall One Call Peri Peri, has pleaded guilty to six separate offences including selling food unfit for human consumption that included pizzas and doner meat contaminated with salmonella bacteria.

Mr Khan also pleaded guilty to failing to clean and disinfect a doner kebab meat cutter and kitchen utensils appropriately, leading to widespread contamination.

On Thursday, Wolverhampton Magistrates’ Court heard evidence from Walsall Council Environmental Health officers who visited the One Call Peri Peri premises in July 2017 after a number of complaints of alleged food poisoning by members of the public.

As well as formal food samples, swabs were taken from the shop’s donner kebab cutter, chopping board and an electric knife used for cutting chicken.

Samples from a dirty shop sponge were also submitted for laboratory analysis.

Results proved that harmful salmonella bacteria taken from the Blakenall Lane shop and equipment were present in all of the swabs and that the strain of bacteria matched patient and hospital samples.