Smyth's mother owns famous chippy Kings
Psycho chippy Christopher Smyth battered a fast food rival after he rubbished his mum’s pastie recipe.
The rival fryer came to blows as Smyth accused his rival of trying to nick the family recipe for the speciality pastie.
Not content with ‘a-salting’ his victim Smyth jumped from the frying pan into the fire by marching round to the local school and trying to bag his target’s son.
But he got his chips when a court handed him an 18 month jail sentence suspended for three years for losing the bap and threatening to kill his rival.
Smyth whose address was given as Wynchurch Park, south Belfast, went on his terri-frying rampage in February.
After assaulting the owner of another Belfast chip shop and accusing him of trying to steal a pastie recipe from his mum’s business Smyth told the man he was going to kill him.
The psycho then drove to a Belfast school where he attempted to abduct the man’s son by telling the school he was the child’s uncle.
He even told the school principal that he needed the boy as a matter of urgency because the boy’s parents had been in serious car accident and were in hospital fighting for their lives.
The Sunday World has spoken to Smyth’s victim, who asked not to be identified so that his teenage son, who Smyth tried to abduct, is also not identified.“Chris Smyth was planning to do harm to my son and it was only by the grace of God that he wasn’t in school that day.”
The man who was assaulted by Smyth says his son is still afraid to leave the house in case Smyth tries to kidnap him again.
Speaking exclusively to the Sunday World the man, who also runs a chip shop, confirmed that 27-year-old Smyth went “berserk” about a pastie recipe.
“He arrived at my door early in the morning and was going berserk shouting about some pastie recipe,” said the man.
Smyth’s mum owns and operates King’s which has two outlets, one on the Ormeau Road and the other on the Grosvenor Road, and she employed her son for a time.
“I always knew he had a reputation but his behaviour that day was crazy.
“He was ranting on about it for ages and then he started accusing me of slabbering at his mum.
“I wasn’t prepared for him and he punched me in the mouth and then he put his boot through our front door. He was shouting ‘You’s are dead’ and ‘if I get a gun I’m gonna shoot you’.
Smyth only left when he was told the police were being called but as the family began trying to recover from that unprovoked outburst they had no idea that worse was about to come.
“We got a call from the school principal and they told us a man was at the school asking for our son,” said the man.
“It was Chris Smyth and he told the school he was the boy’s uncle and that he needed to speak to him immediately because his parents had been in a bad car accident.
Smyth claimed he had only gone to the school to speak to the teenager, but the court didn’t swallow his story.
Just before the trial was about to begin Smyth pleaded guilty to assault, criminal damage and attempted child abduction.
The judge handed the 27-year-old an 18-month sentence, which was suspended for three years.
However, the judge warned Smyth he would “put the sentence into effect” if he committed any further offences.