Illegal: Saheed Matlub, 38, fined �1,000.
Published on Saturday 15 December 2012 08:01
A GREENGROCER used the backyard of his Sheffield shop as an illegal makeshift slaughterhouse – killing a goat he bought from a farmer.
Council inspectors swooped on Khawaja and Sons on Page Hall Road and discovered a goat’s carcass in the outside yard, strung up above a drain.
The court was told there was a ‘warm, steaming’ carcass hanging over a hole, where a manhole had been removed so blood flowed into the drain.
A search of the store revealed a skinned goat’s head – banned by the EU from human consumption – ready for sale in the chiller and another in the freezer.
Inspectors rescued nine live goats found in an outbuilding, which have been rehomed at an animal sanctuary.
Published on Saturday 15 December 2012 08:01
A GREENGROCER used the backyard of his Sheffield shop as an illegal makeshift slaughterhouse – killing a goat he bought from a farmer.
Council inspectors swooped on Khawaja and Sons on Page Hall Road and discovered a goat’s carcass in the outside yard, strung up above a drain.
The court was told there was a ‘warm, steaming’ carcass hanging over a hole, where a manhole had been removed so blood flowed into the drain.
A search of the store revealed a skinned goat’s head – banned by the EU from human consumption – ready for sale in the chiller and another in the freezer.
Inspectors rescued nine live goats found in an outbuilding, which have been rehomed at an animal sanctuary.
