Seven men, three of them based in London, have been charged with conspiracy to supply unfit meat following an investigation by the Food Standards Agency’s National Food Crime Unit, with two of the seven also facing animal cruelty charges.
The men appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, where all seven were charged by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) with conspiracy to supply unfit meat. They have been committed to Southwark Crown Court to appear on 11 November 2026, and are on unconditional bail.
Four of the men are based in Wales, while the other three are based in the capital. Appearing in court via video link were Tudor Organ, 30, of Carmarthen; William Organ, 54, of Carmarthen; Simon Jones, 36, of Carmarthen; and David Hird, 29, of Ceredigion. Present in the courtroom were Richard Agyemang, 58, of London; Amjad Buttar, 58; and Abdul Rahman, 56.
Tudor Organ and William Organ have also been charged with animal cruelty, allegedly carrying out an act that caused an animal to suffer. The remaining five face the conspiracy charge alone.
A lengthy and complex investigation
Neil Castle, deputy head of the Food Standards Agency’s National Food Crime Unit (NFCU), said: “Seven people have appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court to face charges following a decision by the CPS. This comes after a lengthy and complex NFCU investigation into food crime offences. All were committed to Southwark Crown Court to appear on 11 November 2026 and are on unconditional bail.”
The NFCU is the Food Standards Agency’s specialist unit for tackling food crime — the trade in food that is unsafe, misdescribed or produced outside the law. Its remit covers offences including the supply of unfit meat, the misdescription of food, and the illegal slaughter or processing of animals. It works with the CPS, which takes the decision on whether to prosecute and then brings the case to court.
Dean Quick, of the CPS’s Serious Economic, Organised Crime and International Directorate, said: “Our prosecutors have worked to establish that there is sufficient evidence to bring this case to court and that it is in the public interest to pursue criminal proceedings. We have worked carefully with the Food Standards Agency’s National Food Crime Unit as they have carried out their investigation.”
He added: “We remind all concerned that proceedings against these defendants are active and that they have the right to a fair trial. It is vital that there should be no reporting, commentary or sharing of information online which could in any way prejudice these proceedings.”
What happens next
Because the case has been committed to the Crown Court, the next hearing will be at Southwark Crown Court on 11 November, where the defendants will face the charges against them. Until then they remain on unconditional bail — free, but required to attend court when the case is called.
All seven men are charged, not convicted. The conspiracy charge alleges an agreement to supply meat that was unfit for human consumption; the animal cruelty charges against Tudor Organ and William Organ allege an act that caused an animal to suffer. No further detail of the alleged offending has been set out at this stage, and the case will now proceed through the courts.
The charges are a reminder of how seriously food standards are policed in the capital. Eleven Bexley takeaways were rated one or two stars after hygiene inspections, and the NFCU’s work sits at the sharper end of that enforcement — criminal prosecution, rather than a poor rating on the door. The case is also being handled by the CPS directorate that deals with organised crime, a sign of how the authorities view the scale of the alleged offending.
