A restaurant owner allegedly assaulted a police community support officer in an argument over his car.

Farshad Nassirpour, 46, who owns Piccolos restaurant in Ship Street, Brighton, is charged with assaulting the PCSO in Ship Street on March the 11.

It is alleged that Nassirpour, of Ship Street, shoved the woman PCSO in a long-running dispute over causing an obstruction by parking his car outside the restaurant.

He was charged on April 5 and will appear at Brighton Magistrates' Court on April 28.