A DISPUTE over chicken legs descended into violence.
Piotr Sterna, 37, of West Lorne Street, Chester, was convicted of butting and punching Jacek Bilinski during two separate incidents at the end of September last year.
Sterna had been living with Mr Bilinski at a house on Vicars Cross Road, Vicars Cross. Speaking through an interpreter, Mr Bilinski said he had been butted by Sterna on September 25 after asking him about a chicken leg that had gone missing from their communal kitchen.
Mr Bilinski said he didn't report the incident to the police and that he suffered no injury.
Five days later, on September 30, Mr Bilinski explained how Sterna took exception to him talking to someone about a debt his girlfriend owed .
He said: 'When I opened the door, he walked into the room and told me to stop slagging him off and then punched me in the face before I managed to shut the door.'
Police attended and arrested Sterna. Mr Bilinski added Sterna told him he would send him back to Poland in a coffin.
Sterna, who has not been back to the property since, said on the morning of September 30 he started drinking at 9am but denied having seen Mr Bilinski that day. He denied butting him on September 25.
Magistrates adjourned sentencing until March 19.
