Restaurant boss ‘grabbed partner by throat’

A restaurateur smashed up furniture worth £5,000 and grabbed his partner around the throat in a two day bust-up at their apartment, a court heard. Rupert Pendered, 56, is joint owner of the Chipping Forecast, an upmarket fish and chip restaurant with branches in Soho and Notting Hill. He attacked Timothy Haigh, his partner of 20 years in their Ladbroke Gardens flat on 20 December, then called a police officer a ‘gorilla’ when he arrived at the scene, it was…