Customer complains .... restauranteur - kills him

As if eating the food isn't a gamble enough at some restaurants.
I guess the moral of the story is think twice before you complain when dining ... may be safer to write an email instead.

A DINER was stabbed to death by a restaurateur after an argument about slow service, a court heard yesterday.
The Supreme Court was told Khanh Vo, 35, fatally stabbed customer Anh Dung Nguyen, 54, after the two men argued about the service in Vo's crowded Abbotsford restaurant, Bon Mua, on April 16, 2006.
The men and their friends fought before Vo ran into the kitchen, grabbed a fruit knife and stabbed Mr Nguyen, the court heard.
Vo, of Ivanhoe, pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Mr Nguyen.
The court heard Mr Nguyen had been drinking before he and a group of nine friends arrived at the restaurant about 10.30pm.
Prosecutor Peter Jones said Mr Nguyen became upset after midnight about slow service, banged his hand on a table and exchanged words with Vo's wife, Vy Huynh.
Vo became upset when he heard Mr Nguyen had spoken to his wife and a fight erupted, Mr Jones said.
After grabbing a knife from his kitchen, Vo returned and stabbed Mr Nguyen three times.
Mr Nguyen died later in hospital.
Defence lawyer Ian Hill, QC, told the court Vo's actions had not been planned or premeditated and had "erupted spontaneously".
"At the least, the deceased was rude and aggressive in his demeanour," Mr Hill said.
Running a successful restaurant was important to Vo and "to see a person threatening that . . . may well have caused him to act in the way (in) which he did".
Mr Hill said Vo, now a father of two, had fled Vietnam with his family in 1985 and subsequently spent more than two years in refugee camps in Hong Kong.
Vo had been "frequently frightened and possibly exposed to significant trauma" while in the camps, according to a psychologist.
Mr Hill said his client had pleaded guilty at the first available opportunity, saving the state expense and sparing witnesses the trauma of having to give evidence.
"It can be seen . . . not only as a legal but also a moral acknowledgment by the prisoner of his wrongdoing, and should be taken as a sign of his true remorse and contrition for taking a life," Mr Hill said.
"He feels really ashamed about his actions.
"The only emotion that he can recall of the night was one of fear."
Mr Hill said Vo's restaurant was sold in December.
Justice Kevin Bell will sentence Vo on a date to be set.

From the Herald Sun.