Image caption Mohammed Zaman was owner of the Indian Garden restaurant in Easingwold where Paul Wilson ordered a takeaway curry 
 
 A restaurant owner accused of killing a customer who died from an allergic reaction to a curry "put profit before safety", a court has heard. Paul Wilson, 38, was found dead at his home in Helperby, North Yorkshire, after buying a takeaway containing peanuts from the Indian Garden restaurant owned by Mohammed Zaman in January 2014, Teesside Crown Court was told. Customer Paul Wilson 
 
 Zaman, 53, has gone on trial accused of Mr Wilson’s manslaughter after he took a “reckless and cavalier attitude to risk” and “put profit before safety” at the restaurants he owned, the jury heard. Richard Wright QC, prosecuting, told the court Zaman had swapped from using almond powder to the cheaper groundnut powder, containing peanuts, in June 2013 but, despite a warning from his supplier, did not warn customers that he was using peanut ingredients. Image copyright Google Image caption The Indian Garden restaurant pictured in 2011 
 
 A week before Mr Wilson's death, Mr Wright said, a trading standards officer found evidence of peanuts in another meal which was said to have been peanut-free, and discovered a box labelled blanched ground peanut in the kitchen of Mr Zaman's Jaipur Spice restaurant in Easingwold. She told staff that customers in all of Zaman’s restaurants must be informed they were using peanuts, the court heard. Mr Wright said that, on the night of his death on January 30 2014, Mr Wilson told staff at the Indian Garden restaurant, in Easingwold, that his meal must be nut-free. In fact, the takeaway package containing Paul Wilson’s final meal even had “no nuts” written on top of it, as per his request, and even after his death, Zaman allegedly continued using the peanut-laced blend. “Mohammed Zaman received numerous warnings that he was putting his customers’ health, and potentially their lives, at risk,” Crown prosecutor Richard Wright told the jury in the case, according to the Press Association. “Tragically for Paul Wilson, Mohammed Zaman took none of those opportunities and ignored all of the warnings he was given.” 
 
 The most staggering of those warnings was probably when a 17-year-old girl with a peanut allergy had to be treated at a hospital after eating one of Zaman’s curries. “His was a reckless and cavalier attitude to risk and one that we, the prosecution, would describe as grossly negligent.” 
 
 Mr Wright added: “Time and again he ignored the danger and did not protect his customers. “The evidence will establish that Mohammed Zaman put profit before safety and that he cut corners at every turn.” 
 
 Zaman blamed others when he was interviewed by police and “took no personal responsibility”, Mr Wright said. “The evidence will establish that Mohammed Zaman put profit before safety and that he cut corners at every turn.” 
 
 Because of his apparent carelessness and numerous red flags, Zaman was charged with manslaughter by gross negligence, perverting the course of justice, and six food safety offences. The trial is expected to last three weeks.
– A most unusual manslaughter trial is unfolding in the UK, one that revolves around "death by curry," as a post at Munchies puts it. Prosecutors accuse restaurant owner Mohammed Zaman of subbing in peanuts for almonds in his ground mix to save money and deliberately concealing the switch to customers, reports the BBC. That proved deadly for 38-year-old Paul Wilson of North Yorkshire, who picked up a take-out order from Indian Garden from in Easingwold and later died after going into anaphylactic shock. Wilson suffered from a severe peanut allergy, something he pointed out to the staff—the words "no nuts" were written on the lid of his order. A few weeks before his death, a 17-year-old girl nearly died after eating food from another one of Zaman's restaurants, reports the Telegraph. When her mother called afterward to ask whether it contained peanuts, she was told it did not, say prosecutors. After that incident, an inspector found a box of ground peanuts in a kitchen of one of Zaman's restaurants and ordered that all of his customers be informed about its use, something that allegedly never happened. "Mohammed Zaman received numerous warnings that he was putting his customers’ health, and potentially their lives, at risk," says a prosecutor, per the Yorkshire Post. "His was a reckless and cavalier attitude to risk and one that we, the prosecution, would describe as grossly negligent.” Zaman, strapped for cash, allegedly told his food supplier to sub in peanuts in order to cut his cost in half, then ignored the supplier's demand that he inform customers of the change. He has pleaded not guilty to the manslaughter charge. (A California couple says they were booted from their flight over their son's peanut allergy.)