The warning came during an inquest into the deaths of Jennifer Cahill, 34, and her baby daughter Agnes, who both died following a traumatic home birth in Prestwich, Manchester, on June 3 last year.
Chips @ No 8 in Prestwich has regularly been hailed as one of the best fish and chip shops in Greater Manchester and has made it into national lists too, often drawing in big crowds during the day.
Edmund Simpson, from Prestwich, Manchester, was 58 when he was beaten to death with a blunt instrument in Burns' bookshop, which he worked in for 36 years, in broad daylight in 1982.