Monday 4 July 2022 11:57 AM Master tailor, 41, who worked with Dolce & Gabbana admits smashing girlfriend's ... trends now

A master tailor had to be dragged off his girlfriend as he repeatedly bashed her head on the pavement outside a luxury five-star Mayfair hotel, a court heard.

Richard Benettello, 41, claims the pair were drunk after eating and drinking at a Peruvian restaurant in London and that he was guilty of nothing more than 'excessive self-defence.'

Mr Benettello, who has worked with Giorgio Armani, Dolce & Gabbana and Burberry, was pulled off girlfriend Solankhe Tchikaya, 37, by a security guard outside The Athenaeum, Piccadilly on May 27, last year.

He pleaded guilty at City of London Magistrates' Court to assaulting the graduate marketing and communications specialist.

Mr Benettello, of Fulham Road, West Brompton was bailed to July 29 for a pre-sentence report on the condition he does not contact

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