An Adelaide woman who bit a waiter's arm in a row over the price of a barramundi meal has been found not guilty of assault.
Chunping Quan bit the waiter outside an Adelaide restaurant after she and her companion paid only half the price on the bill because they claimed they were served half a fish when they ordered a whole barramundi.
In Adelaide Magistrates Court yesterday, Quan was found not guilty of assault with the court ruling the charge had not been proved beyond reasonable doubt.
Quan had argued that she had acted in self-defence during the incident in June last year.
During her trial, she said he repeatedly told waiter Fan Chi Kong that he had no right to stop her.
She told the court that she bit him after repeatedly asking him to release her.
Mr Kong told the court, as the only male waiter working at the time, his boss had asked him to follow Quan after she left the restaurant.
He said he grabbed her hand in an attempt to stop her getting away.
"When I grabbed her firmly she started biting me," he said through a translator.
Mr Kong said Quan continued to walk as she was biting him, prompting him to grab her purse before squatting to the ground.
"I continued grabbing her purse and waited until the police arrived," he said.
In his decision, magistrate Oliver Koehn said police had failed to prove that Quan had not acted in self-defence.
Quan declined to comment outside court.
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