A Tesco security guard was left with egg dripping down her face after a row over a bag of crisps.
Police were called to the Tesco Express store after Andrew Manning, who had earlier been ejected from the premises after staff refused to exchange the snack for another flavour, returned armed with a carton of eggs which he began hurling at the worker. The angry customer then went on to attack his neighbour with a door handle and a bike pump, an assault so brutal it has left him considering moving away from his home of two decades.
Liverpool Crown Court heard this afternoon, Wednesday, that employee Alison Bates arrived for work at the branch on Myrtle Street in the city centre at 7am March 19 this year. Manning, whom she knew to be nicknamed "Manno", had previously caused issues by begging outside the store and being "aggressive" towards shoppers.
