In the Courts

TEENAGER CHARGED OVER LAKE MACQUARIE GLASSING

Posted on April 4th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
Police have confirmed a man has been charged with reckless wounding after he hit another man in the neck with a glass in a Lake Macquarie pub on Friday night. Lake Macquarie Local Area Command told PubTIC a 19-year-old man

PUB DEATH PERPETRATORS RELEASED EARLY ON PAROLE

Posted on March 9th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
Two brothers jailed for a pub fight that killed a man have been released on parole after only 18 months in prison. Mitchell Clay Dowling and his half-brother Jay David Blazely were each sentenced to around two and a half

TAG-TEAM PUNCH-UP LEAVES OAKEY MAN IN COMA

Posted on March 7th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
Police are appealing for witnesses to the assault of a man outside a pub that resulted in him being airlifted to hospital in a coma. Around 12:30 am on Sunday, local man Shane Smith got into an altercation with two

QLD HOTEL SECURITY GUARD FACES CHARGE OVER GRIEVOUS BODILY HARM

Posted on March 2nd, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
A security guard from a Surfers Paradise hotel appeared in court over the bashing of a man helping his drunk brother into his room. [caption id="attachment_5305" align="alignright" width="227"] Dennis Faulkner[/caption] Southport Magistrate’s Court heard the sorry tale of a man

FOSTER’S SUED IN US FOR BEING ‘UN-AUSTRALIAN’

Posted on January 15th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
Foster’s in the USA is being sued for being ‘un-Australian’ after a fan of the beer discovered his drink was made in Texas. New Yorker Leif Nelson was reportedly ‘devastated’ to learn that his favourite lager, marketed in the States

TOY-WIELDING ARMED BANDIT CRIME SPREE FOILED BY PUB

Posted on December 18th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
A teenager’s crime spree ended when a pub owner and manager called his bluff trying to hold up the hotel with a replica gun. 17-year-old Mitchell Arthur Watts has been charged with counts of armed robbery – the third being

PATRON PUNCH SEES PATRON DEATH AND NEW CHARGES

Posted on December 16th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
A shameful incident outside a Gold Coast pub a week ago has escalated, with the victim of an assault dying in hospital on Monday. Around 2:30am on Friday, 4 December, two men “unknown to each other” are reported to have

REALITY CHECK FOR PUB PATRON GUILTY OF ASSAULT

Posted on November 30th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
A Victorian Court has issued a reality check to a patron that sparked a violent altercation requiring police involvement in a St Kilda pub. Truck driver and electrician Steven McCormick appeared before Armidale Local Court charged with common assault and