Dispute over rent turned violent

A SQUABBLE between housemates about rent spilled over outside a supermarket as two men attacked a third while he loaded shopping into his car.

Father and son Wieslaw and Jakub Kowalkowski both pleaded guilty at Cork District Court yesterday to the same charge of assaulting Marcin Banaszuk at the Lidl car park in Togher, Cork.

Inspector Michael McGuire said that, on April 1, 2010, the injured party was at the supermarket with his wife. As he was putting shopping into his car he was set upon first by Wieslaw Kowalkowski, aged 47, of 5 Beach Walk, Crann Ard, Fermoy, Co Cork.