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Man consults personal injury solicitors
after choking on metal

A diner has consulted personal injury solicitors after claiming he swallowed a piece of metal while eating a takeaway from an award-winning Yorkshire restaurant.

Gary Greenhalgh was eating a chicken curry with his girlfriend when a sharp object became lodged in his throat. Choking and in pain, he thought he had swallowed a piece of bone and so rushed to hospital to get it removed. Doctors managed to dislodge the object and it was discovered to be a small piece of sharp metal.

32-year-old Mr Greenhalgh told reporters, "It was painful and quite frightening. I complained to the restaurant but they weren't very helpful."

Unhappy with the response, he then contacted personal injury solicitors with a view to making a compensation claim against the Red Chilli II takeaway in Wakefield for the pain and suffering their alleged neglect has caused.

The restaurant's owner, Ansar Ali, told the media he had no idea where the metal came from and has yet to see any prove of Mr Greenhalgh's accusations. He said, "We've been operating this restaurant for two-and-a-half years. We've never had a complaint before about a piece of metal.

"There's nothing metal in the kitchen apart from the pans, cutlery and cooker. This puts us in a bad position. We recently won a restaurant of the year award and the publicity of this is very unfair."