Student served scalding curry in polystyrene cup awarded €14k for burns

An 18-year-old student who was served scalding hot curry sauce in a feather-light polystyrene cup has been awarded €14,000 damages for burn injuries against a takeaway restaurant.

Circuit Court president Mr Justice Raymond Groarke said the manner in which the sauce had been packaged for John Patrick Starrs had failed to reach an appropriate standard.

Barrister Aaron Shearer told the Circuit Civil Court that Mr Starrs, now 21, purchased a meal at a Chinese takeaway restaurant known as Kings Garden, in Main Street, Tallaght, Co Dublin, in June 2010.