A takeaway owner whose shop was shut down by food safety inspectors after they found rodent droppings and cockroaches there has been ordered to pay almost £2,000.

Erdem Sert, who ran Seven Sisters Kebabs + Pizza, in Seven Sisters Road, Tottenham, admitted a string of food hygiene offences when he appeared at Highbury Corner Magistrates’ Court on July 2.

It followed a visit by Haringey Council’s food safety officers on March 7, when they immediately shut down the takeaway after finding cockroaches crawling on the floor and work surfaces and rodent droppings.

Sert pleaded guilty to failing to keep the premises in a good clean state, failing to keep it free from pests and failing to ensure that food was not at risk of contamination.