A Lottery “winner” who was refused a £4million prize hurled hot cauliflower cheese at a restaurant boss, a court heard.
Jon-Ross Watson, 31, was fined £200 after he admitted assaulting and threatening Oliver Knight in July.
The court heard Mr Knight was “still picking pieces of food from his ear some time after the incident” in The Star pub in Burnley.
Watson also shouted, swore and threw napkins.
He and Mark Goodram, 36, made headlines in April when they bought a winning £10 scratchcard but Camelot refused to pay out amid suspicions it was bought with a stolen debit card.
Watson, of Farnworth, Bolton, lost his temper at the carvery when he went for seconds to be told it wasn’t an “all you can eat” buffet.
A court heard he demanded his money back, so Mr Knight told a staff member to take his plate away and refund him.
But Watson then began to eat vegetables off a ladle. Tracey Yates, prosecuting, said he got one filled with cauliflower cheese, and “threw [it] at the victim”.
It hit Mr Knight “in the head, around the ear”.
The court heard Watson turned to drink and cocaine earlier this year when his sister and her
two daughters died in a “murder-suicide”.
