The families of the E. coli victims in the 2005 outbreak in Wales believe the public officials charged with protecting their families failed in their duty, but that butcher William Tudor “motivated by greed and profit bears the principal responsibility for the outbreak."

Bridgend County Council responded by saying it made a "reasonable" decision to allow William Tudor, the Butcher of Wales,  to use one vacuum-packing machine for both cooked and uncooked meat and that the rules on the issue were "unclear."

The BBC reports that Bridgend council do accept that there were deficiencies in the way its officers worked with the factory to introduce a hazard assessment plan, but it says that the government had intended the scheme to be introduced on a "softly softly" basis.

It also says that Mr Tudor’s "undoubted attempts at deceit" gave their officers the impression that he was a "competent and informed food operator."