Chef slashed by colleague in row over burnt steaks

A chef suffered a kitchen nightmare after another chef slashed him across the wrist with a large knife in a row over burnt steaks.

At Ennis Circuit Court yesterday, Dubliner Neville Fitzpatrick, aged 47, said he was sure he was going to die after being victim to what he called a “vicious assault” by 42-year-old Thai chef Songwut Sanban in the kitchen of the Falls Hotel in Ennistymon, Co Clare.

A chef with 30 years’ experience, Mr Fitzpatrick has not worked as a chef since the knife attack in which he sustained a broken left wrist, had one tendon severed, and another severely damaged.