Restaurateur acquitted of knife attack
20 July 2000
A restaurant owner has been acquitted of stabbing a man in his own pizza shop.
A jury took less than two hours to decide that Farzin Hakimi, 45, from Dorchester was not guilty of wounding a customer, Brian Hogg, in a scuffle at his take-away shop in November last year.
Hogg had arrived in his restaurant after drinking four or five pints of strong lager. Hakimi said Hogg and his friend became aggressive when he asked them to leave and one had hit him on the back of the head.
