Chinese restaurant manager fined for fire safety breaches
The manager of a Chinese restaurant in Cambridge has pleaded guilty to 16 fire safety breaches.
A visit from fire protection offers and environmental health officials revealed a range of health and safety breaches at the Tang Chinese Restaurant.
Investigators discovered that the loft of the premises had been converted into accommodation and was being used by staff. It had no fire exit, fire alarm system or emergency lighting.
Xueling Teng, pleaded guilty to the breaches when he appeared before Peterborough Magistrates’ Court earlier this month.
Only two days before the conviction, he had actually resigned as the manager of the restaurant.
Steve Cotton from Cambridge Fire and Rescue Service, said: “These breaches were putting lives at risk. This prosecution should serve as a message to other business owners that the Fire Safety Order cannot be ignored – it is there to save lives.”
Mr Teng was fined £2,000 for the breaches and ordered to pay £1,000 in costs.
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