A Swindon kebab shop has been given a one out of five rating for food hygiene in a recent inspection.

Supreme Doner Kebab of 35 Bridge Street was given the lowly rating at the end of last month following checks at the eatery.

The report, carried out by the Food Standards Agency, found that major improvement were necessary at the takeaway.

This news was labelled as “preposterous” by the eatery’s Manager of Operations, Rizu Ahmed - who revealed the inspection came just days after they reopened.

He said that the flat above his shop had been stealing his electricity, as reported by the Adver here, and were forced to close for two weeks whilst their supply was fixed.

Mr Ahmed, 37, said: “We don’t know why the score is what it is, and we have immediately contacted our lawyers to look into the issue.

“We have recently requested a reinspection because the inspection we received wasn’t accurate or appropriate.

“Our electricity was stolen [by] the upstairs flat and as soon as we were let back in following the closure, we lost thousands of pounds of stock thanks to this affecting the refrigerators,” continued Mr Ahmed.

Food hygiene reports are assessed by three factors and the first of these is hygienic food handling.

This requires the eatery to have hygienic handling of food including preparation, cooking, re-heating, cooling and storage.

In this category, Supreme were told that improvement was necessary.

A second category assesses the cleanliness and condition of facilities and building, including having appropriate layout, ventilation, hand washing facilities and pest control to enable good food hygiene.

The Swindon-based eatery were told that this was currently to a generally satisfactory standard.

Finally, restaurants are judged on their management of food safety, ensuring that System or checks are in place to make sure that food sold or served is safe to eat.

This also includes that there is evidence that staff know about food safety and that the food safety officer has confidence that standards will be maintained in future.

On this final hurdle, Supreme Doner Kebab fell short, being told in the report that major improvement was necessary regarding this.

“There was no mention of uncleanliness or vermin in the report, but rather out of date food,” explained Mr Ahmed.

“There’s no surprise that the dates were off because we were closed for two weeks through no fault of our own.”

This all resulted in a lowly one rating, making the takeaway one of the lowest ranked in Swindon for food hygiene.

“I think it is preposterous that they have given us one star, especially after what the business has gone through,” said Mr Ahmed.

“We are welcome to any inspection as we are that confident that this rating is wrong.”

Swindon Borough Council and Wiltshire Police have been contacted for comment.