Pictured Britain's filthiest takeaway: Chicken left defrosting in a bucket, nowhere for staff to wash hands after the toilet and mouse droppings on the floor!

• Tiger King in Portsmouth was given a surprise inspection last week
• Filthy conditions uncovered and the takeaway was immediately closed
• Owner Daniel Fan fined £5,000 and banned from running a food business
• Inspector said hygiene problems among 'worst he'd ever encountered'

PUBLISHED: 12:23 GMT, 24 February 2014 | UPDATED: 12:44 GMT, 24 February 2014

A Chinese takeaway which had mouse droppings on the floor and no toilet seat has been shut after an inspector said it was the worst he’d seen.
Tiger King in Portsmouth, Hampshire, was so filthy it was branded a risk to public health and immediately closed.
The horrified inspector, who went to the takeaway after a tip-off from a disgruntled customer, found a chicken defrosting in a bucket on the kitchen floor, food stores on low dirty shelves and mouse droppings coating the floor.

Revolting: A hygiene inspector found this chicken defrosting in a bucket of water left on a dirty floor

Dirty: Staff, who had nowhere to wash their hands, had to use this toilet with no seat

Closed down: The Tiger King in Portsmouth was shut down immediately by the inspector

Staff were forced to use a toilet with no seat and were left with nowhere to wash their hands.
Owner Daniel Fan has now been banned from running a food business for six months.
Richard Lee, Portsmouth City Council’s environmental health manager, said it was one of the worst hygiene breaches he had seen in 20 years.