The defendants were charged with assault causing bodily harm and uttering threats following an incident at the Welland Inn.
The Crown alleged that the defendants and a third party attacked the complainant after he arrived at the hotel with his spouse to check on a property sale.
The defendants claimed the complainant attacked them with a walking stick and they acted in self-defence.
The court found the complainant and his spouse's testimony credible and coherent, rejected the defendants' version as internally and externally inconsistent, and found no air of reality to the self-defence claim.
Both defendants were convicted of assault causing bodily harm, and Paolo Rego was additionally convicted of uttering threats.
