Top chef ex-fashionable eatery in custody accused ‘knockout punch’

An ex-chef from a top Queensland restaurant has been refused bail after police charged him with knocking out his brother.

1889 Enoteca at Woolloongabba

A chef who once worked at a top Queensland restaurant has been refused bail after police charged him with knocking out his brother with two punches in the face in an unprovoked attack.

Daniel Anthony Paterson appeared in Brisbane Magistrates Court on Saturday where he applied for bail on a charge of assault occasioning bodily harm before Magistrate Tracy Mossop.

Police allege the 28-year-old knocked his brother unconscious when he twice punched his brother in the right-side of his face without provocation at 3.30am.

The brother caught a bus to hospital while bleeding, and doctors told him his eye was swollen, the court was told.

1889 Enoteca at Woolloongabba

Legal Aid lawyer Nick Hanly told the court that his client denies the claim that he punched his brother, and intends to defend the charge.

“He says he slapped his brother twice across the face, he says he then left the residence,” Mr Hanly told the court.

“He says that his girlfriend then saw his brother punching himself in the face.”.

Mr Hanly said Paterson used to be a chef at Woolloongabba Italian restaurant 1889 Enoteca, but had not been working there for some time and was now on the dole.

“He suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and borderline personality disorder and autism and he is currently unmedicated for all of those, and he takes prescription cannabis for sleeping,” Mr Hanly told the court.

Police prosecutors objected to bail.

Mrs Mossop refused bail, saying Paterson was an unacceptable risk of either reoffending, breaching his bail or failing to appear.

“The offences of violence with injury are serious allegations,” Mrs Mossop said.

“There is reference to drug use, contained in the police material, associated with this defendant.”

Part-way through the bail hearing Mrs Mossop ordered Paterson be returned to the watch-house cells, and removed from the court, after he interrupted the hearing with comments while sitting in the dock.

Paterson was remanded in custody and is due back in court on June 21.

Originally published as Top chef ex-fashionable eatery in custody accused ‘knockout punch’