A Toowoomba gaming attendant has walked away without a conviction or his job, after chasing his own lost $20 on Keno with over $66,000 of the hotel’s money. On Sunday 6 January 27-year-old Benjamin Naythan Shipp was working a quiet afternoon 2-6:30 shift at Toowoomba’s Portadown Hotel. The accredited gaming attendant had access to the […]
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An employee of a Townsville pub has been convicted, again, for crimes relating to a robbery at the hotel she helped arrange. In December 2015 the Boomerang Hotel in Mackay was held up, with bandits getting away with $41,000. 25-year-old Ngawaiti Hoana Rawhiti was one of the employees tied up during the robbery. Appearing in
A man has been charged over the death of a regular patron outside a Victorian pub last week. It was reported that an “altercation” took place out front of the Farmers Arms Hotel, in Creswick, 15 kilometres north of Ballarat, around 2am on the morning of Sunday, 22 November. Police will allege 39-year-old local man
A man that allegedly spiked a woman’s drink at a Newtown pub last Friday has faced court this week on a charge of administer poison, and been released on strict conditional bail. A 27-year-old woman with friends at the Town Hall Hotel returned from the bathroom and drank her drink, shortly before collapsing with apparent
A man that killed another with his van minutes after an altercation in the carpark of a pub, has had his murder conviction downgraded and will soon be eligible for parole. On 21 February 2014 Michael Meakin, 50, arrived at the hotel in western Sydney around 2:15pm, where he consumed full strength schooners of beer
A patron that was injured during a live music performance in 2017 is suing the Corner Hotel and its security for potential negligence. A gig by American punk rock band The Bronx at live music mecca The Corner in October 2017 saw the band’s lead singer ‘crowd surf’ off the stage, on probably more than
A magistrate has jailed a man that started a brawl outside Patonga Boat House earlier this year, triggered when he and his bucks party were refused entry. On 23 February Joshua Norman Bovis, along with father Michael Andrew Bovis and other friends, were out celebrating Joshua’s pending nuptials. After a stint at the Newport Arms,
An inter-agency taskforce involving more than 90 police officers executed coordinated raids at 58 properties, in relation to a scourge of gaming room robberies in South Australia. Police report armed robberies at 26 gaming rooms in the State since the start of the year. Fifteen offenders had already been detained and arrested in relation to
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An incident over the weekend in Sydney’s south highlights the unpredictable nature of some people, as an unwanted patron finds himself facing nine new charges. Around 7pm on Saturday a 24-year-old local man got into an argument with bar staff at a Riverwood hotel when denied further service. According to witnesses, he sprayed the remainder
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The coward punch killer of teenager Patrick Cronin at the Windy Mile Hotel has been ordered to pay over $170k compensation to the family by the Victorian Supreme Court. The ruling is a hard-fought win for the surviving relatives of the 19-year-old victim, who said the amount was “irrelevant” and their motive was sending a
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