KFC owner hits back at TV magician Dynamo’s chicken ‘food poisoning’ claim

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Dave Benett

The owner of a north London KFC being sued by TV magician Dynamo has defended the quality of its chicken, insisting the star’s love of fried food may have been to blame for a severe bout of illness.  

The “Magician Impossible” illusionist claims he suffered food poisoning after an £8.47 “Boneless Banquet” meal from the Belsize Park branch, suggesting uncooked chicken was the source of the problem.  

He says he was hit badly by the illness in summer 2017 due to having the auto-immune disorder Crohn’s Disease, suffering from agonising arthritis which has left him at times unable to even handle a pack of cards.  

Dynamo, real name Steven Frayne, is seeking more than £200,000 in damages from the KFC franchisee, Alim Investments Ltd.  

But the firm has made a robust defence of its food safety. Barrister Howard Stevens QC, in a written defence at the High Court, said Alim denies “the meal was not of satisfactory quality” and will fight the claims that the chicken was “defective” or “unfit for safe human consumption”. 

He said the franchisee received a five-star hygiene rating in 2016, its chicken is supplied in frozen form, and there are established processes for safely handling the food.  

They may claim the magician’s loss of earnings were “caused by his own negligence, bearing in mind that he is understood regularly to have eaten food from the restaurant and that it is well known that fried food  can exacerbate Crohn’s disease”.  

Dynamo’s personal injury claim and Alim’s defence are now lodged at the court but the case has not yet been before a judge.

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