A DINER stabbed his colleague in the leg with a fork after the man he offered a chip to instead stole an onion ring from his plate, a court heard yesterday (Thurs).

Builder Mark Lawson, aged 44 of Battalion Way, Thatcham, turned on the fellow diner at The Diamond Tap, Newbury, during a Christmas work party on December 19 last year.

The victim casually asked Lawson if he could have a chip from his meal and the defendant agreed, but saw red as one of the few onion rings on his plate was taken instead.

The story of the food fury was told ...