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However, they refused to name the mystery inspector.The programme’s researchers have now handed over their findings to trading standards officials. for a fee.”One of the companies, Quality Cuisine UK, based in Edinburgh and Dunfermline, said its inspector was so impressed he had named the Chilli Pepper his Restaurant of the Year and its chef the Chef of the Year. And, for only pounds 93, the owners could have two certificates to display their achievements to their adoring clientele.A second firm, Masterchef Roll of Honour, based in central London, said its inspector had sampled the restaurant’s cuisine and was prepared to offer it a five-star rating – with a certificate for pounds 62.50.When told that the Chilli Pepper did not exist, Masterchef failed to reply to the programme and Quality Cuisine claimed that the person responsible for bestowing its accolades had been sacked. Despite being awarded several top prizes, the Chilli Pepper was nothing more than a fake letterhead and an accommodation address set up to expose bogus restaurant awards.
The ruse, devised by the BBC’s Food and Drink programme, is likely to result in a trading standards investigation into the awarding of titles and certificates for money after two companies bestowed prizes on the non-existent bistro.”We wrote to the companies saying we were a new restaurant and invited them to inspect us to see whether we were worthy of a rating,” said Tim Hincks, the programme’s producer.

“Several weeks later, both wrote to us to say they had inspected our restaurant and wanted to give it some awards … During its brief life, the Chilli Pepper restaurant boasted a Chef of the Year, a five-star rating for its atmosphere and – the icing on the cake – a Restaurant of the Year title The only thing it did not have was any food. Robin Pask, 34, had admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility.
He killed Elizabeth Howe, 34, a mother-of-two, while attending an Open University course at York University, Leeds Crown Court heard.Prosecutor Stephen Williamson QC said the married father-of-three slashed Oxford graduate Mrs Howe’s throat with a knife in campus accommodation and then dressed in her clothes.Pask, from Horwich, Bolton, Lancashire, had driven to York to take part in a week-long Open University course where Mrs Howe, who he did not know, was a lecturer.He entered her room, bolted the door behind him and attacked Mrs Howe with a Kitchen Devil knife.Mr Williamson said Pask tore her dress from her body, stripped her naked and sexually assaulted her.He slashed her throat and after she was dead made a 20-inch cut from her chest to her groin and also cut her back.He then discarded his own clothes, which were covered in blood and put on her clothes which he found in her room.Dressed as a woman, Pask wandered round the grounds for some hours until he was arrested by police at 1.55am the next morning.Mr Williamson said Pask had been excited about the course and had packed his briefcase with pornographic magazines and some of his wife’s slimming tablets.He had been drinking vodka and strong wine before committing the killing.Martin Bethel QC, defending, told the court that Pask had faced trial for the murder of Mrs Howe but had collapsed during the hearing and was found to be unfit for the case to continue.Psychological reports found that he was suffering from psychotic disorders.The judge, Mrs Justice Smith, ordered that Pask be detained without time limit at Ashworth psychiatric hospital on Merseyside.. A man who killed a woman academic and then wandered around a university campus in her clothes has been sent to a secure hospital indefinitely. She was sure he locked his office door before he sat on the arm of the chair she was sitting on, to discuss the book he was giving to her.She felt uncomfortable and got up to leave “I tried to get away as quickly as I could,” she said.

“As I was leaving, near the door, he attempted to kiss me and I pulled away.” She left immediately afterwards.The woman denied she was part of a conspiracy to discredit the professor, but admitted being a friend of two other women who have made similar complaints against him.Under cross-examination by Mr Hardie, she was asked why it had taken her a year before she reported the alleged incident. She said she had not complained because she was taking university finals the following June and did not want to interrupt her studies, and later her father had become seriously ill.She denied Mr Hardie’s allegation that she had not told her parents or other people in the church about what had happened at the time because the incident had not happened.Later, she admitted contributing to a private fund which is said to have been set up by rival leaders of the Free Church to pay for travel expenses from Australia of another of Professor Macleod’s alleged victims.Under cross-examination the woman said she had given pounds 50 towards the Dorcas Fund – named after a woman in the New Testament who was raised from the dead by one of the disciples – after seeing a circular asking for contributions to meet the pounds 1,500 costs.. He said this would not be fair to the accused and he was acquitting him of the final charge. In sustaining the motion to strike one of the six charges, Mr Horsburgh said: “In my view it would be prejudicial to the defence for evidence to be further taken from this witness.” He then formally acquitted Professor Macleod of the charge.Earlier yesterday, a fourth woman accused Professor Macleod, 55, of indecent assault. The 25-year-old woman told the court that the alleged incident happened when she went to the professor’s office to borrow a book for a university course she was doing on church history.His lawyers have already suggested during the case that the charges are the result of a conspiracy among some members of the church.

The court was told the woman went to Professor Macleod’s study in the church college in November 1991 after he offered to lend her a book for one of her courses. He said that the charge – the sixth – referred to the incident taking place between 1 March and 31 May 1992. He pointed out that this charge had already been amended by the Crown, who originally said that it took place in 1993.Mr Hardie’s motion was challenged by Deput Fiscal Margaret Graham, who asked to be allowed to clarify the correct date with the woman. But Sheriff John Horsburgh QC said he was sustaining the objection.He referred to an earlier legal argument in the case when the defence entered a special plea of alibi after the date that the assault took place was finally pinned down to the end of July 1985.Mr Hardie said that the Crown should have got a precise date from the witness, who alleged Professor Macleod kissed her in his home, when they prepared her for the trial.Mr Horsburgh said that the same situation could arise again if there was some question mark hanging over the timing of the final offence. When the Edinburgh Sheriff Court resumed yesterday afternoon Andrew Hardie QC said he was making a motion that no more evidence should be taken from the witness. Notwithstanding that, the mobile is expected to raise between pounds 15,000 and pounds 25,000 next Thursday..