Homes and Property | Home PageMan gets life for McDonald's stabbingPaul Cheston|Evening Standard Courts Correspondent13 April 2012A man has been jailed for life for "the sudden and brutal" stabbing of a queue-jumping customer in a McDonald's restaurant.Dennis Ciantar, 34, flew into a rage after Gavin McGrath was served ahead of him and, after a struggle, chased him into the street to knife him in the back.The knife sliced through vital arteries and Mr McGrath, 34, died despite the efforts of paramedics.Ciantar, a petty criminal with a record of violence, theft and car crime, was arrested after a TV viewer phoned in vital information following a BBC Crimewatch programme reconstruction.Sentencing Judge Richard Hawkins said: "After a trivial incident in McDonald's you set off after your victim. The only appropriate sentence is life imprisonment."Ciantar, from Holloway, denied murder but was convicted at the Old Bailey by a 11-1 jury majority.MORE ABOUTComputer CrimePoliceProperty CrimeRedecorationRenovation