Staff at a Bradford takeaway sandwich business were told to serve up mouldy food to customers, an industrial tribunal heard.

And two former employees claimed they were sexually harassed by their boss.

The three women were working at the business when it was taken over by a new owner.

At a tribunal in Leeds they alleged he told them to:

Sell green ham in sandwiches.

Serve sausages which were cooked sometimes days before.

Sell old coleslaw - on one occasion a month out of date.

Sell chilli con carne which had been repeatedly topped up and reheated.

Top up old sandwich fillings with new mixtures.

Use potatoes so old they had started to sprout.

Sell turkey in a mix as chicken.

The tribunal chairman has ruled that the business and the witnesses should not be identified until a decision is made.

The three women are claiming sexual discrimination and two of them are also claiming constructive dismissal, alleging conditions in the shop became so bad they had to leave.

They said their boss would "oggle" young girls walking past and make comments about them.

And one of them claimed he would also come up behind her and on some occasions tried to kiss her on the neck.

The three, who all left in August last year, also said the kitchen area was dirty because they were so short-staffed they did not have the time to clean it.

And they claimed the shop was too hot to work in last summer and that food was going off because their boss refused to open a back door he had battened down after a burglary.

One said: "I was frightened of killing someone - that's how bad it was."

Under cross-examination two of them said most of the food served to customers was all right, but the third said only about half of it was satisfactory.

The tribunal was adjourned until April.

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