A SACKED chef throttled his boss after putting a bag over his head and threatening to kill him in a late night ambush, a court heard. 

Kevin Robinson appeared before Barrow Crown Court yesterday charged with attacking Christoph Alexandrou. 

The 35-year-old of Napier Street, Dalton, denies attempted grievous bodily harm and assault occasioning actual bodily harm on November 30. 

Prosecution barrister Mr Robert Wyn Jones explained: “Christoph Alexandrou and Nicos Nicolaides own and run a fast food restaurant in Ulverston called the Lakeland Continental or Conti. Christoph Alexandrou was working that day and was on his own as he was cleaning up. 

"One of the chefs employed by him was the defendant and his partner Nicola worked there too. There had been a fall out. Christoph Alexandrou thought the couple didn’t want to work there anymore and the couple thought they had been sacked. 

“It was about 10.30 when he shut up and after tidying up he went to leave at 11pm. he went out the back door to go up the stairs to his flat above the restaurant. 

"The back also opens up onto a lane. As he locked the door he saw someone to his side. Then he felt a blow to his face and a bag was out over his head and he was punched to the ground and back into the restaurant.” 

The prosecutor said that the defendant then said he was going to kill him as he swore.

Mr Wyn Jones added: “There were more blows and he started to strangle him and he was terrified. He managed to pull the bag away and pulled the hood away from the man’s head and saw part of his face.” 

The court was told that the offender then fled the scene and the police were called. 

Mr Wyn Jones continued: “He was very shaken and when police arrived they could see he was bloodied and traumatised. 

"While police were at the scene they got a call from control saying that Kevin Robinson had contacted them saying that he had gone to the restaurant to to speak to Mr Alexandrou and he attacked him. 

"They went to his home and arrested him and he told them he had been unhappy he had been sacked and wanted to talk but he had attacked him like a wild animal.” 

He told the court that at the time of the incident Mr Alexandrou was 69 and 5ft 6in in height and the defendant was 34 and 6ft 1in tall. He added that alight bulb was later found melted into plastic from where it had been removed from an outside toilet at the back of the shop. 

The trial continues.