A shop owner has said his staff were traumatised after a man entered his premises with a stick and smashed bottles and abused staff. The court was told Pittner had a disagreement with a Centra staff member about a product and left the shop. Mr Kearns told the court Pittner returned a time later and became abusive towards staff and got aggressive. He said his client did assault a staff member with an umbrella but did not know if it was intentional or not. Mr Kearns said he tried to provide a safe place for his staff to work and said the staff member who experienced the incident is still nervous when working by herself.

Source: Irish Independent March 21, 2020 00:11 UTC