Former cavalry lieutenant denies dinner party assault

A barrister and former calvary lieutenant hurled a bottle of champagne at a plate causing it to shatter and injure a fellow diner, a court heard. Philip James Edward Kilby, 32, is accused of assaulting William Hall at a dinner party in New King’s Road, Fulham on 31 January this year. Nathan Paine Davey, prosecuting, told Westminster Magistrates’ Court: ‘The fact is that the defendant and complainant were at a dinner party on 31 January and initially the defendant was…