Eww! Authorities Seal Off Restaurant After Discovering Cockroach Infestation (Graphic Photos)

Video footage shows German cockroaches scuttling from the rear of a filthy freezer at Chesters in Lime Street, Liverpool city centre .

Photographs show raw meat stored above ready-to-eat salad, filthy flooring and equipment and dirty cardboard used to soak up blood from raw chicken in “one of the worst” cases Liverpool’s environmental health team has seen.

Staff were also not provided with suitable facilities to wash their hands and there was no food hygiene plan in place, inspectors found.

Smithdown Road Fast Food Ltd, the company which owns the business as well as a second branch on Smithdown Road, was ordered to pay £10,720 in fines and costs after pleading guilty to 17 breaches of food hygiene laws.