Man finds tooth with fillings in Tesco fudge yoghurt

Bedworth man David Casey was watching TV when he began tucking in to a fudge-flavoured yoghurt and found someone else's tooth in it - complete with fillings. The 43-year-old ex-squaddie was furious and put the tooth in a bag before driving straight up to the Tesco superstore at the Arena Park shopping centre to complain. After telling staff what had happened with his Tesco’s own brand Devonshire-style fudge yoghurt he was given a 68p refund. “I bit down on what I thought was a piece of fudge,” said David, of Smorrall Lane, Bedworth, said.


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“Straight away when I saw it, it looked like a tooth. It even had fillings as well. They refunded me the money for the yogurt and said they would send it back for further analysis. They’ve said sorry for the inconvenience but it’s not inconvenient – it’s disgusting. I could have someone’s scabby tooth in my stomach right now and the that would not have been nice.” What made the incident much more serious was the fact that David was in the middle of intensive chemotherapy treatment for a tumour in his stomach. Any slight infection could have been life-threatening.

David is a former corporal in the Royal Infantry and served in the Princess of Wales Royal Regiment. Now working as a lorry driver, he saw action as part of the UK peacekeeping force during the conflict in Kosovo in the late 1990s. The father-of-one is due to undergo an operation to remove two thirds of his stomach before Christmas. “I’ve just completed nine weeks of chemo and I can’t even afford to go swimming or anything in case I catch a cold,” he said. “I’ve had to stay overnight in hospital when they thought I was coming down with something because my immune system is down.


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“To have someone else’s tooth in me right now would be the worse thing in the world to have going on.” The supermarket giant has twice sent David a £15 Tesco voucher – which he has returned both times labelling it an “insult”. David added: “They sent me a copy of the report in to it and it said there’s a chance the tooth could have got in to the yoghurt. But then it goes on to basically say it must have been my tooth. I’m furious, you don’t expect to be treated like this. We’ve done them a favour by pointing this out.’’