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Shop fined for selling maggoty sandwich

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CARDIFF, Wales, March 8 (UPI) -- A sandwich shop in Wales has been fined for serving a customer -- or former customer -- a sandwich wrap full of maggots.

Ross Howard told the South Wales Echo that the crawling chicken tikka wrap from the Sandwich Box in Cardiff has put him off wraps completely.

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"I took one bite and thought it wasn't great, but I continued to have another bite," Howard said. "That's when I just froze. I had a couple of maggots in my mouth. I thought 'oh no, this is really not good.' 'I just dropped it on the floor. It was a nightmare."

A co-worker at the Legal and General Assurance Society took the sandwich back to the shop and got a refund for Howard. Now, a court has fined the sandwich shop almost $500 for serving food unfit for consumption plus another $500 in costs, the Echo said.

Howard says he would like an apology.

A lawyer for the shop's owner described the incident as a "one-off fluke."

"This was an alien invasion which could not be explained," Paul Malekin told the newspaper.

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