Home Office catches illegal workers at North London restaurant - 'woman answers door and disappears'

Harrow Council will decide whether to strip Mumbai Local, an Indian restaurant on Streatfield Road, of its licence at a meeting of its Licensing Panel next week (August 20). Immigration officers have found people working there illegally on three separate visits dating back to 2023.

The licence review has been triggered by the Home Office due to the owner repeatedly employing people with no right to work in the UK and for paying them “substantially below” minimum wage. A total of eight illegal workers were identified during the three visits, which included the same worker on separate occasions seven months apart.