From Restaurant staff treated for burns:
Mr Mingotti, 63, said: “It started at the end of May. At 3am the two chefs were in hospital with burns.”The following night the same thing happened. Head chef Sarah Dickinson, 29, from Dalston, said: “When we were finishing work our skin was red and inflamed. I would go to bed and about two hours later it would start.
“It was a pain in the back of my eyes. It was awful.”
Eye specialists were baffled. They asked if she had been welding or on a sunbed and investigated whether it could be an extreme allergic reaction.
“They took a closer look at my eyes and saw they were blistered. I was screaming.”
Mr Mingotti added: “The hospital asked us to bring in all the chemicals we were using. They were sent for analysis in Belgium. Then the dishwasher stuff was sent away. Everything came back clear.”
They also checked for carbon dioxide and a gas leak.
Then health and safety officers asked to see the blue fly-repellant light bulbs.
Mr Mingotti said: “He took the lot away. What we had wasn’t fly killer lights, they were sunbed lights. Twenty-four hours a day we had sunbed light in the kitchen. Every time we were going in front of it we were frying.”