French shopper who threw Camembert at Waitrose staff
The 67-year-old lobbed chunks of cheese at staff and then rammed the manager with a trolley when she tried to stop him making his escape
A FRENCHMAN who pelted supermarket staff with wedges of Camembert has escaped punishment.
Suspected shoplifter Bernard Conche, 67, started the cheesy assault in a branch of Waitrose in Chelsea when security guards spotted him loading up his trolley.
He then used his trolley as a battering ram to hit duty manager Kimberly Taynor, 31, as he tried to evade capture.
Conche failed to attend court but was convicted in his absence of two counts of assault by beating and one count of assaulting an officer in the course of his duty on March 16.
He had already been banned from the upmarket shop in Kings Road, Chelsea, before he was spotted loading up his trolley with French cheese on November 20 last year.
The Frenchman eventually turned up for sentence after a warrant was issued for his arrest.