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Chef-attack customer sent to jail
A DISGRUNTLED customer who broke a chef’s leg after an argument about a meal has been jailed for 15 months.
Leeds Crown Court heard yesterday Hussein Yusuf had persuaded Roger Mwebeiha to cook something for him even though it was late and he was extremely busy at the Victoria public house in Roundhay Road, Leeds.
But after he kept going into the kitchen to check on the progress, in spite of being told he should not be there, the chef said he would not prepare anything for him and gave him his money back.
Carmel Pearson, prosecuting, said later Yusuf again spoke to the chef and there was a further argument between them.
Subsequently Mr Mwebeiha went into the beer garden to take some rubbish out and Yusuf, who was outside at the time, grabbed him by the lapel and swung him round, grinding his heel in a kick into the chef’s right shin.
His victim immediately collapsed to the ground in pain and when he was taken to hospital was found to have both bones in his lower leg shattered and his knee cap broken. He spent 13 days in hospital because of the difficulties caused by the multi fractures and had an operation to insert a plate and screws into his leg.
The injury later became infected and it was many months before it was properly healed.
Yusuf had left the scene but in January this year, almost a year later, the manager recognised him when he returned to the pub and the police were called.
Yusuf, 23, of Oatland Towers, Oatland Drive, Leeds admitted causing the chef grievous bodily harm on January 30, 2010.
Nick Hammond for Yusuf said he had meant to trip the chef not injure him in the way he did.
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