The owner of an Indian restaurant has been charged over the death of a father who suffered a fatal allergic reaction to peanuts after eating a takeaway.

Paul Wilson, 38, suffered a severe anaphylactic reaction and died after buying a curry from the Indian Garden in January last year.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) have announced that Mohammed Zaman, owner of the eatery in Easingwold, north Yorkshire, has been charged with manslaughter by gross negligence.

Peter Mann, Head of the Complex Casework Unit at the CPS Yorkshire and Humberside said: "The Crown Prosecution Service has been working closely with North Yorkshire Police in connection with this case.

"Having carefully considered all of the evidence presented to us, we have concluded that there is sufficient evidence, and that it is in the public interest to charge Mohammed Khalique Zaman with manslaughter by gross negligence, perverting the course of justice, and an employment offence under the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act 2006.

"Accordingly I have today authorised North Yorkshire Police to charge Mohammed Khalique Zaman with these offences and he will first appear at Northallerton Magistrates' Court shortly.

"This defendant has now been charged with serious criminal offences and has the right to a fair trial. It is extremely important that there should be no reporting, commentary or sharing of information online which could in any way prejudice these proceedings."

Zaman will appear at Northallerton Magistrates' Court on April 24.