Chicken chucking chippy dodges bird

A carpenter who hurled a cooked chicken at a Saatchi and Saatchi designer as the couple had a food fight has avoided doing any ‘bird.’

Colin Comiskey, 34, grabbed his partner Ellen Van De Vusse, and drunkenly hurled the basted fowl at her at their home in West Kensington.

The pair had been in a three-year relationship and had recently moved in together.

But after their relationship hit the rocks, Comiskey returned home drunk and woke her up offering her food.

When Ms Vusse tried to go back to sleep the rejected Romeo began to swear and stormed into the kitchen.

Ms Vusse followed the Irishman only to hearing him mumbling darkly to himself.

Then, out of the blue, a chicken flew towards her ‘exploding’ on her dressing gown and splattering fat and morsels of poultry all over the television.

She phoned the police and locked herself in the bathroom as officers raced to scene, Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard.

Jonathan Bryan, prosecuting, said: ‘The defendant is the ex-boyfriend of the complainant. They had been in a relationship for about three years and had been renting a flat.

‘The relationship broke up in November 2017. There then follows a dispute over the living arrangements.

‘The complainant was asleep in her bed. The defendant arrived at about 9:30pm. He was very drunk.

‘He approached the complainant who was asleep. He asked her in a pleasant way to get up – she said she did not want to.

‘His mood then changed. He said: “Get up, you are not sleeping now.”

‘She told him she wanted to continue sleeping, but he said he had brought her dinner. She said to him she was not hungry.

‘His response to that was to push her in the chest. It did not hurt her, and she tried to walk away.

‘He picked up a chicken and it hit her on the dressing grown. Some of it went over the kitchen and television.

‘She managed to leave the kitchen. He was very angry and was clenching his fists.’

When Ms Vusse rang the police he warned: ‘If you are calling the police you are going to regret it.’

Comiskey, of North End Road, West Kensington, admitted one count of assault by beating on 12 January 2018 he was sentenced to an 18-month community order and told to pay £760 in court costs.

He was originally charged with a further count of assault by beating, but the charge was dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service following his guilty plea.

Sentencing Comiskey, Magistrate Nina Toller said: ‘Mr Comiskey, we find this offence serious enough for us to impose a community order. This order will last for 18 months and there some requirements attached to this order.

‘There are going to be three requirements.’

They were: 40 sessions of a ‘building-better relations’ programme, 80 hours of unpaid work, and a 25 day rehabilitation order.

Comiskey admitted one count of assault by beating on 28 June.

He was granted conditional bail and told not to contact directly or indirectly Ellen Van De Vusse.