A civil lawsuit about launched by a man who wants his ex-fiancee to return a $16,000 engagement ring has become anything but civil.

Pasquale Angelino Zampieri, 46, was in B.C. Supreme Court on Thursday morning to file an application seeking the return of the ring he gave his former fiancée, Jessica Bennett, 27.

But before proceedings could begin, Zampieri and Bennett began their own war of words in front of TV news cameras outside the doors of the Vancouver Law Courts. Full Story