Police chief in spat over glass of wine

Kent police commissioner Ann Barnes reduced a waitress to tears when a row erupted after she was overcharged for a glass of wine at a pub.

As reported by The Telegraph, Barnes argued with staff at the Coach and Horses in Lyminge, Kent, after being charged £5.75 for a glass of wine she allegedly didn’t drink.

According to the paper, Barnes, who earns £85,000 a year, reduced a waitress to tears during the heated spat, which ended in the rogue glass of wine being scrapped from the bill.

After her husband paid the revised bill, Barnes continued to complain about the incident, telling staff that she would never be returning to the pub.

She then took to Twitter to criticise the pub’s staff, Tweeting: “What do you do when overcharged for lunch at local #Lyminge pub and the pub’s owner ‘too busy’ to speak to a very upset customer about it…”

“One of our waitresses was brought to tears. I was shocked she said all these things,” pub manager Steven Dale told The Telegraph.

“We left it, thinking it was just one of those days. But then we saw her Twitter account and I was kind of angry,” he added.