Overview

• Inner London Crown Court sentenced Anthony Fear, 63, to 42 months in prison and disqualified him from company directorships for six years.
• Azar Irshad, 40, received 35 months for the conspiracy plus concurrent six-month terms for regulatory breaches and is barred from any food business until further order.
• Trading Standards traced 1.9 tonnes of animal by-product to an unregistered Walworth premises and uncovered a hidden cutting room processing tainted poultry for sale.
• Evidence showed Fear was contracted to take animal by-products to pet-food producer Saria, while Irshad made 16 trips from Bridgwater to South London to collect the material.
• Mark Hooper got a two-year sentence suspended for two years and 200 hours’ unpaid work, Ali Afzal received a suspended six-month term and costs, and victims’ costs orders for others were deferred.