Diner denies aiming homophobic abuse against waiter

A diner has denied targeting the head waiter of a high-class Chelsea restaurant with homophobic abuse. Peter Church, 65, denied using abusive language against Daniele Bilardo on 21 June last year in Colbert, a French restaurant in Sloane Square, Chelsea. After being asked to confirm his address and date of birth, which the court had recorded as 1954, Church said: ‘I was born in 1956, not 54. I wasn’t present in 54.’ Miren Patel, for Church, told the court ‘It…