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Ex-Asda worker accused over raw chicken licking
A former supermarket worker who was allegedly filmed licking a raw chicken and slashing colleagues' coats at a Preston supermarket has been charged with criminal damage.
Adeel Ayub, 30, of Spinney Brow, Ribbleton, in Preston, worked at Asda, Fulwood, before he left the company in December 2006.
The Lancashire Evening Post obtained the mobile phone footage in September which showed a worker stamping on, and licking raw chickens before putting them back on shelves for customers to buy, setting off fire extinguishers and slashing furniture and clothes with a blade.
Police have charged Ayub with five counts of criminal damage – one for destroying a fire extinguisher, one for destroying furniture, another for destroying clothing and two for destroying food stock.
A Lancashire Police spokesman said: "He will appear before Preston magistrates on December 15."
Mr Ayub, who worked at the store as a shelf-stacker, was also allegedly filmed urinating in a bin, playing cricket and football with stock, smashing boxes of eggs in the stockroom and breaking trophies awarded to the store.
After the original footage was broadcast online, workers at the Fulwood store made their own video in which they reassured customers and spoke of their shock.
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