A STABBING victim threatened to cut a restaurant worker’s face with a pizza cutter and destroy the business, a court heard.
Fynn Western-Davey, 23, of Chapel Lane, Boughton, died at a Balmoral Park address in Chester, on January 23.
A man and woman are due to face a murder trial in May.
At the time, the victim was on bail for assault and attempted robbery after walking into La Fattoria restaurant in Lower Bridge Street, Chester, and threatening to slash a staff member with a pizza cutter.
Chester Crown Court was told Western-Davey was accompanying co-accused Stephen Webb, 36, who had gone to the pizza house to recover money allegedly owed by the restaurant manager to a landlord friend.
During their second visit, after watching last May’s Champions League final at a pub, prosecutor John Hedgecoe said Western-Davey became ‘very aggressive’ and shouted ‘give me the money’ on learning the manager was again absent.
When Webb was refused the restaurant manager’s phone number, Western-Davey said: ‘‘Do you want me to show you how to cut your face?’.”
Western-Davey then picked up a pizza cutter and ‘held it four inches’ from the neck of the restaurant worker who managed to take it off him.
“Mr Western-Davey picked up another pizza cutter and held it against his face saying ‘I will cut your face, I will cut your neck. Give me the money’,” added the prosecutor.
Western-Davey then threw the cutter at the staff member’s face from three feet away but it did not injure him. On leaving the premises, he shouted: ‘I will destroy your business’.
Webb, unemployed, of The Leadworks, Queens Road, Chester, was given a two- year conditional discharge, a restraining order and asked to pay £100 costs after admitting harassment.
His previous convictions include possession of cocaine, a conditional caution and breach of bail.
Judge Roger Dutton told Webb he must learn to deal with his own problems not other people’s but accepted Western-Davey was ‘very much the aggressor’.
He said: “Ironically he is sadly no longer with us but he has been painted in a particular light publicly when he was facing a very serious allegation.”
