Waitress attacked by customer’s fiancee

A waitress was lucky to escape serious injury when she was attacked and punched in the face by a woman who believed she had “disrespected her man”, Bantry District Court was told yesterday.

Waitress Lucie Kopecka (31) has not worked at the restaurant in West Cork since the attack, where the woman’s fiance blocked her exit as he urged his girlfriend to “finish her off”.

An ex-boxer and reputed British ‘hardman’ William Isaac, described by a judge as a bully boy, encouraged his fianceeSiobhan Ginty to violently punch Ms Kopecka while she was cornered in the smoking room in the Gateway Restaurant in Durrus on Apr 7 last.