Chef bites man

Jan 8 2008

An award-winning chef chewed off part of a builder's ear after a row about reggae, a court heard.

Michael Jenkins, whose venison roulade won him dinner for two at one of Gordon Ramsey's restaurants, ran into trouble after temporarily swapping the "high-pressured" kitchen environment for a career break on a building site.

But while working on some scaffolding he got into an argument with "mate" Levi Edwards about reggae. Jenkins, of 25, of Wembley, north-west London, was given a suspended 12-month prison sentence after admitting a single count of wounding at Southwark Crown Court.