Beef-on-the-bone case adjourned
6 December 1999
Beef-on-the-bone case adjourned
By FWi staff
THE case against a pub landlord prosecuted for selling beef-on-the-bone has been adjourned until next month.
Alan Coomber, landlord of the Bell Inn, near Rye, East Sussex, has been charged with two counts of selling T-bone steaks two years ago.
The 53-year-old continued defying the ban, reports the Press Association news agency.
Meanwhile, the prosecution of Scottish hotelier Jim Sutherland for serving beef-on-the-bone almost two years ago is to proceed.
Mr Sutherlands Carfraemill hotel in the Borders was the venue for a “prohibition dinner” attended by 170 farmers.
Tomorrow Mr Sutherlands lawyers will argue at the High Court in Edinburgh that there is no case to answer.
Last Tuesday, agriculture minister Nick Brown lifted the two-year ban introduced due to fears that BSE. could be transmitted to humans via cattle bones.
Under the Beef Bones Regulations of November 1997, anyone selling T-bone steaks, beef ribs or oxtail was liable to prosecution.