'Dine and dash' couple admit skipping £1,168 in restaurant bills. Bernard McDonagh, 41, and Ann McDonagh, 39, of Sandfields, Port Talbot, admitted five counts of fraud after skipping £1,168.10 worth of restaurant bills.
One dine and dasher says he returned to pay after finding out his waitress was threatened with the sack. Read the full reportWith the benefit of hindsight, Tyrone Rees and his wife Domenica realise they both had a funny feeling about the party of eight who booked lunch at their family-run Italian restaurant last month.
Bella Ciao was not the only victim of McDonagh's party, but one of five restaurants within a 30-mile radius in South Wales Calling it 'blatant theft', Jones believes the 'shameful' crime has not always been taken as seriously as it should. The party of eight ordered multiple soft drinks each, prawns and steaks - even for the children - before leaving without footing the £329 bill
Two months ago, they opened a second branch in Swansea, which had only been in business for two weeks when the party of eight came in. 'They didn't hold back,' Tyrone says. 'They didn't drink alcohol, but they ordered multiple bottles of cola, three each at a time, then the prawns and steaks and up to two puddings each.'
He also managed to identify those responsible. Last week Bernard McDonagh, 41, and wife Ann McDonagh, 39 – the group's ringleaders – pleaded guilty at Swansea Crown Court to racking up £1,168 worth of unpaid restaurant bills. They are to be sentenced later this month. Janie said the worst Dine and Dash incident occurred at the start of March this year, when a table of seven aggressively tried to argue their way out of a £400 bill
'I took all their mains off the bill as a gesture of goodwill, even though the meals were all good quality,' she recalls. 'At this point they were left with £300 from the original £400 bill, but I heard one of the ringleaders say 'I don't think we're going to be paying for this' to our poor 24-year-old restaurant manager.'
'They then mocked me and told me I was faking it so I handed the phone to one of them to prove I had dialled 999 – at which point he even argued with the call handler,' she recalls. 'They were so arrogant.' Kerry Ann Stevens, a solicitor, was booted out of the legal profession by the Solicitors Regulatory Authority after being convicted of two counts of fraud by false representation, both related to dine and dash incidents
'The one who's had the expensive meal, but the cheaper bill pays up, then the person who'd had the cheaper meal but got the expensive bill would query it and would only have to pay the cheaper bill too,' he says. 'Saved us a ton. We did it for years.' 'The woman apparently tried to get out of the toilet window but there are bars up,' landlord Len Told recalled. The police are looking into the incident.
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