Chef slashed colleague in steaks row

A chef who slashed a colleague across the wrist with a large knife in a “flaming row” over burnt steaks has walked free from court.

This follows Judge Gerald Keys yesterday imposing a four-year suspended jail term on Songwut Sanban, aged 42, for the knife attack on Neville Fitzpatrick, aged 47, in the hotel kitchen of the Falls hotel in Ennistymon on September 11, 2014.

A chef with 30 years’ experience, Mr Fitzpatrick said he was sure he was going to die after what he called the “vicious assault” by Mr Sanban. Mr Fitzpatrick has not worked as a chef since, and is now a tour guide at the Ailwee Caves in north Clare.