A wine bar has been fined £100,000 after a teenager needed her stomach removing after drinking a smoking liquid nitrogen cocktail handed to her for free.

Gaby Scanlon, now 20, had been with friends at the Oscar's Wine Bar and Bistro in Lancaster when she was given the Nitro-Jagermeister shot in celebration of her 18th birthday.

But upon drinking the normally £3.95 drink she described feeling “agonising pain” and was forced to loosen her clothing as smoke billowed from her mouth and nose.

Miss Scanlon from Heysham, Lancashire, was taken to the Lancaster Royal Infirmary for surgery to remove her stomach and her small bowel connected with her oesophagus to save her life.

Oscar's Wine Bar and Bistro, which had only opened five months prior to the incident on October 4 2012, pleaded guilty to one count of failing in the duty of an employer to ensure the safety of persons not in its employment, admitting it failed to ensure the shot cocktail was safe for consumption.

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