article_snippet: Ms Welsh asked: 'Were you able to see how the defendant hit you?
article_snippet: he denied that he had asked where she was from or called she a 'fat b
article_snippet: ***', claiming that he slapped she in self-defence after she hit he when he insulted she hair.
article_snippet: The defendant told the court: 'I said she had her hair since it was covering she face and that it was difficult to speak to she.'
article_snippet: Asked what happened next, The defendant said: 'she slapped me immediately just after I said that sentence, on my left cheek.
article_snippet: I slapped she back in self-defence.
article_snippet: The defendant said that The defendant had had one glass of wine and two vodka tonics before the incident and accepted The defendant was not entirely sober, but The defendant denied that The defendant lost The defendant temper or that The defendant had hit Ms Sikorska with a closed fist. '