Page 2850 salmonella
cases linked
to Indian food
MORE than 50 people have
been infected with salmonella
linked to Indian restaurants
in less than three months.
Public health bodies and the
Food Standards Agency are
investigating the outbreak
after tests revealed all
patients are infected with the
same strain of the bug.
Some 42 people in England
and 12 in Wales caught it
between April 23 and July 7.
No common food product
has been identified but some
said they ate at Indian res-
taurants before falling ill. Two
of the restaurants are in Lon-
don and have been linked to
several confirmed cases.Rover in the way despite
repeated pleas from Mr Char-
nock, the court was told.
City analyst Mr Charnock
said when it first happened he
told Comerford ‘it would be
helpful if he parked at the
side’. But the same thing hap-
pened days later and when he
protested Comerford said he
felt like ‘knocking my block
off ’ and ‘punching my face in’.
Mr Charnock said: ‘It was
intimidating behaviour. You’d
expect with neighbours that
you just have to rub along.’
He told the court that on one
occasion when he was filming
the obstruction Comerford
shouted: ‘Are you having fun,
you little t**t? Why are you
taking pictures of my car? Areentrepreneur Mark Charnock’s £1million
home after a row over right of way on their
shared private drive, a court heard.
Comerford accused his Porsche-driving
neighbour of carrying out a ‘vendetta’ and
claimed he had only needed to knock on his
door and ask him to move the vehicle.
But a magistrate branded him ‘evasive’
and accepted the evidence of company
director Mr Charnock, who had recordedthe vehicle in the way more than 100 times.
Manchester Magistrates’ Court heard the
neighbours initially had an ‘amicable’ rela-
tionship after Comerford moved into his
£500,000 ‘forever home’ in upmarket Wors-
ley, near Manchester. They would even
invite one another around for drinks.
However, things turned sour in 2017 when
Comerford began having major building
work done, with vans clogging up the drive
that also leads to Mr Charnock’s property.
He continued parking his black Rangeyou jealous or something?’ Mr
Charnock said he suffered
health problems blamed on
stress during a year and a half
of repeated obstruction.
‘He simply doesn’t back
down,’ Mr Charnock added.
‘He wants to make my life
difficult and to make my life a
misery – and he did.’
However, Comerford told the
court he was unaware that he
was causing a problem until
police called round at the start
of 2018, claiming: ‘It was a
major shock.’
He accused Mr Charnock of
being ‘aggressive’ and ‘hostile’
and insisted there was nowhere
else for him to park.
Magistrate Joe Bangudu said
his testimony had been
‘evasive’ and ‘not credible’.
Comerford will be sentenced
next month.By James TozerArchitect blocked
drive 100 times to
anger neighbour
IT’s the sort of niggling habit that
can irritate neighbours – blocking a
shared driveway.
But architect David Comerford, 46,
took it to extremes, making his neigh-
bour’s life a ‘misery’ by parking his Range
Rover in the way more than 100 times.
Comerford has now been convicted of
harassment after a court ruled that his
actions were deliberate. He repeatedly left
the luxury 4x4 outside the gates to‘Intimidating
behaviour’Guilty: David ComerfordCompiled by ETAN SMALLMAN
and ADAM JACOT DE BOINODDAY
ON THIS
August 8, 2019
FROM THE DAILY MAIL ARCHIVE
AUGUST 8, 1966
TWenTY months ago, Mr Jeffrey Archer
flew to Washington to enlist President
Johnson’s support for an Oxfam fundraising
drive. Yesterday, aged 26, he was invited to
become a governor of public school Dover
College. Headmaster Mr Timothy Cobb
said: ‘The man who gets an interview with
President Johnson simply by asking for it,
and who gets The Beatles to raise money for
Oxfam, is a very remarkable man indeed.’
AUGUST 8, 1973
BBC disc jockey Terry Wogan is known as
the ‘Parking Meter King’ of Broadcasting
House. The jovial Irishman earned the title
by dashing from his studio while his show
was on air — to slot 5p in a parking meter.
He ran through the control room, down
flights of stairs, out into the street and back
again while a record was still spinning.HAPPY BIRTHDAY
ROgeR FeDeReR, 38. The
swiss tennis player holds
the record for the most
grand slam men’s singles
championships — with 20
titles. Federer, who has won
Wimbledon a record eight
times, became the oldest
world no 1 at 36. Federer
said the secret to his success is simple:
‘There is no way around the hard work.
embrace it. You have to put in the hours.’
sIMOn WesTOn, 58. The Welsh guards
veteran sustained burns to 46 per cent of his
body in the Falklands War. A superior officer
told the Welshman a few months later he
was ‘totally unemployable’, but Weston,
once voted the nation’s Favourite Hero, has
made a career as a motivational speaker. He
has said: ‘There’s no doubt I’m resilient. It’s
not what happens in life that counts, but
how you look to the future and I’ve not let
disaster finish me off.’BORN ON THIS DAY
esTHeR WIllIAMs (1921-2013).
The U.s. swimmer took up acting
and became ‘Hollywood’s Mermaid’
by starring in a series of ‘aqua
musicals’ in the 1940s and 1950s
— despite saying she could not
sing, dance or act. scriptwriters
tried to keep her in the pool for
as long as possible because, as
comedienne Fanny Brice said:
‘Wet she’s a star; dry she ain’t.’
KeITH BARROn (1934-2017). The York-
shire-born actor is best known for sitcom
Duty Free. In the 1980s, on a break from act-
ing, he set up a restaurant in Cornwall, once
reacting to a petulant customer by throwing
a plate of cauliflower cheese into the car
park. He said: ‘If I’m angry I usually just go
quiet, but when I lose it I really lose it.’ON AUGUST 8...
IN 1969, followers of cult leader Charles
Manson murdered pregnant actress sharon
Tate and four other people in los Angeles.
IN 1988, the Duke and Duchess of York
announced the birth of their first child,
daughter Beatrice elizabeth Mary.WORD WIZARDRY
GUESS THE DEFINITION: Macilent (c 1851)
A) Careless, reckless, happy-go-lucky.
B) Having a pearly lustre. C) lean or
excessively thin. Answer below
PHRASE EXPLAINED
Bull in a china shop: Meaning reckless,
clumsy or awkward; coined in 1812 in
the london Review and literary Journal to
describe those who don’t act with caution in
situations that demand it.QUOTE FOR TODAY
Advice is what we ask for
when we already know the
answer but wish we didn’t.
Erica Jong, U.S. novelistJOKE OF THE DAY
I sAID ‘no comment’ throughout my police
interview... i didn’t get the job.
Guess The definition answer: c.V1ПОДГОТОВИЛА
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