A MINI-market owner sold out-of-date food and allowed staff to work with overloaded electrical sockets and burnt-out extensions leads, a court has heard.

Haroon Mahmood, of Monk Street, Accrington was selling out of date meat and sandwiches at Windsor Mini Market, Salford.

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Manchester Magistrates Court heard Mahmood ignored warnings to stop selling the dangerous products and the dangerous electrics put staff at risk of serious injury or even a fatal electric shock.

Mahmood pleaded guilty to seven offences of selling food past its use-by date and failing to implement a documented food safety management system at Salford and Manchester Magistrates Court.

He also admitted failure to maintain electrical equipment in a safe condition.

Mr Mahmood was fined a total of £2,910, ordered to pay £2,444 in costs and a victim surcharge of £15.

The court heard an environmental health officer from visited the shop on February 24, 2015 on a routine inspection. He found the shop selling food beyond its use-by date which put anyone eating it at serious risk of illness.

The shop had been issued with a warning two years earlier about illegally selling food beyond its use-by date.

The items on sale were two packets of gammon steaks with use-by date of February 13, a chicken and stuffing sandwich with a date of February 17, one pint of semi skimmed milk with a date of February 21 and a chicken tandoori sandwich with a date of February 23.

The officer warned Mr Mahmood but when he revisited the shop three days later he found the warning had been ignored.

Staff were using dangerous electrical equipment which exposed them to the risk of fatal electric shocks.

Cllr David Lancaster, of Salford City Council, said: “The use-by date on food is there to protect people and must not be ignored.”