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Sentencing, Mr PK Lewis said that the fact that no customers had been taken ill after eating the food was a 'stroke of good fortune'.Stevens, from Splott, Cardiff, took on the restaurant in 2009 after a brief spell of unemployment but failed to declare his new circumstances - and continued claiming benefits.Over three and a half years he claimed housing benefit, council tax benefit, carers’ allowance and incapacity benefit as the main carer for his disabled wife Cheryl.The total sum racked up to ￡37,380,Nike Air Max 2014 Red Black, more than ￡10,000 a year.While he was profiteering from the benefits claims, Stevens' kitchen was serving up 'exotic meat challenges' with zebra, crocodile and camel on the menu.But inspections over at eight-month period revealed the kitchen on Cowbridge Road East, Cardiff, to be a filthy pit, with pate past its expiry date, bags of rotting meat and only a dirty cloth for chefs to clean their hands on.When inspectors visited the site Mr Stevens admitted the restaurant was not the 'cleanest place'. His lawyer Ruth Smith said: 'He said ‘I know our cleanliness is not up to scratch. We will get it done. I am not going to kid and say it’s the cleanest place.' Benefits cheat talks about his filthy 'Man v Food' restaurant Paul Stevens walked free today with a suspended sentence despite serving up food which was 'unfit' for human consumption The filthy and messy restaurant was filled with rotting food and stacked with rubbish Pate well past its sell-by date was rotting within the kitchen Machinery at the restaurant was filthy, like this dirt-encrusted microwave used to warm food served up to customers Customers ordered from this lengthy menu without knowing the conditions in which their food was prepared The fast food restaurant - whose delicacies include kangaroo testicles, scorpions, ants, and mealworms - claims to be the only place in Britain that serves huge mega-meals inspired by American TV show Man v Food, where host Adam Richman takes on a series of gut-busting gastronomic challenges.Yet during the inspections, Cardiff council’s environmental health team found raw chicken stored alongside bread rolls, raw meat and fish stored with ready-to-eat foods and inadequate disinfectantand cleaning facilities. More... Benefits cheat who claimed she was agoraphobic but travelled the world from India to New York enjoying enjoying a 'champagne lifestyle' faces jail Fugitive who baited police via Facebook with goading statuses like 'you ain't gonna get me' jailed after he was finally caught... and then officers took to twitter to boast The kitchen was also filthy with floors and walls covered in grease and food debris strewn with out-of-date meat and duck pate. Cutlery was dirty, cobwebs lined the ceiling and meals were warmed in a food-splattered microwave.Staff were also failing to wash their hands while preparing food, but instead wiped them on a cloth left strewn on food surfaces.There was also no soap at the sinks in the men’s toilets and the toilet seat, pan and flush were described as needing a 'thorough clean' by inspectors. The women’s toilet was also found in a putrid state, with cracked, dirty tiles. Filthy tiles that were rarely cleaned at the Cardiff eatery Bags of raw meat were stored alongside bread in the juice-filled rank fridge The kitchen was also filthy with floors and walls covered in grease and food debris strewn with out-of-date meat and duck pate. Cutlery was dirty,UK Nike Air Max 2011 Black Grey, cobwebs lined the ceiling and meals were warmed in a food-splattered microwave Christian Jowett, prosecuting, said that Stevens had been 'confrontational and uncooperative' during a follow-up inspection despite serving food that was 'likely to be unfit for human consumption'.'There was no cleaning schedule and there was no training procedure for staff,UK Nike Air Max 2014 All Black, although Stevens said he was the only food handler,' said Mr Jowett.'Meat was found out of date and green, slimy and smelly.'Inspectors gave the Sizzle and Grill a food hygiene rating of 0, which means urgent improvement is necessary. The restaurant was given a hygiene rating of 0, now raised to 2, but it still remains open Junk was stacked up inside the restaurant where inspectors found the bathrooms filthy with cracked tiles The restaurant, where Stevens still works and employ six members of staff, has now improved its rating to 2, meaning improvement is still necessary.Ruth Smith, defending, urged the recorder of Cardiff, Mr PK Lewis QC, to consider a suspended sentence for Stevens as he cares for his disabled wife and also his mother, who has Alzheimer’s.'I don’t agree that he said he didn’t do anything wrong,' said Ms Smith.'He said ‘I know our cleanliness is not up to scratch. We will get it done. I am not going to kid and say it’s the cleanest place.' The benefit cheat had swindled ￡40,000 in benefits over a three-year-period Sentencing Mr PK Lewis ruled that it had been a 'stroke of good fortune' that no one had been taken ill after eating the food at the