A takeaway has been ordered to pay £1,845 for breaching food hygiene laws.
Iftikhar Matloob, the manager of Sholay's Takeaway, in Alice Street, Keighley, pleaded guilty to three offences at Bingley Magistrate's Court last Thursday.
Bradford Council had prosecuted him for failure to protect food from contamination, failure to keep food premises clean and failure to keep cleaning equipment clean.
The offences dated back to October 2006, when environmental health officers from the council visited the take-away and found sewage leaking from a floor drain in the kitchen.
Nigel Coates, environmental health officer with Bradford Council, said in his 36 years experience he had rarely seen conditions as bad as those he had seen during his inspection of the premises. Matloob was fined £250 for each offence and ordered to pay £1,095 costs to the council.
Sholay's was boarded up and empty when the Keighley News visited it on Tuesday.
No one from the business was available for comment.
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