Legal

POLICE ARREST MAN OVER COMMY ARMED ROBBERY

Posted on March 8th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
An arrest has been made following the investigation of a violent armed robbery last month, where two masked Caucasian men left an employee of the Commonwealth Hotel Newcastle seriously injured. On 28 February at 4:24am, it has been alleged that

POLICE HUNT COMMY BANDITS

Posted on March 4th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
Police are investigating a violent armed robbery last week at the Commonwealth Hotel in Cooks Hill where a worker was seriously injured. Officers from Newcastle City Police District were called to the premises at the intersection of Union and Bull

GUARD KILLED IN ‘COWARD PUNCH’ IN SUTHERLAND

Posted on February 26th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
A hotel patron has been charged over the ‘coward punch’ death of a security guard, following an alleged assault outside a Sutherland pub. Emergency services were summoned to the Royal Hotel around 2am Sunday morning, told 30-year-old security guard Mousa

BROTHERS JAILED OVER DRUNKEN BRAWL

Posted on February 21st, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
A pair of brothers have been sent to prison over a drunken brawl at the Tourist Hotel, where they punched and assaulted a female worker. Parliament House security worker Benjamin Stewart McLennan, aged 41, and his mechanic brother Joshua McLennan,

KEGS BEING STOLEN ACROSS MELBOURNE

Posted on February 9th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
Detectives in Victoria are investigating the theft of more 200 empty kegs from outside pubs in suburbs of inner-Melbourne. Opportunistic thieves have been swiping the empties throughout the past five months, and possibly longer. Each keg unit is valued at

PUB BRAWL RESULTS IN CHARGES FOR TWO COPS

Posted on January 29th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
Two ranked police officers have been charged over a brawl at a Central Coast pub made famous by involving NRL star Tom Starling, after a three-year battle to clear his name and get justice. On December 5, 2020 the Canberra

WOMAN SUES LYONS’ PUB OVER ASSAULT BY ANOTHER WOMAN

Posted on January 17th, 2024 by Clyde Mooney
A woman is suing the pub owned by Darryn Lyons – former Geelong mayor – after being assaulted by another patron that she says should have been removed earlier. Rebecca Gerdsen lodged a writ with the County Court over the

DAYLESFORD PUB FATAL CRASH: DRIVER CHARGED

Posted on December 15th, 2023 by Clyde Mooney
The driver of a car that tore through the beer garden of the Royal Hotel Daylesford last month, killing five people, has faced court over 14 charges, accused of ignoring repeated alerts on his blood sugar. Police report a white

HOTEL FINED OVER TEEN GAMBLING SPREE

Posted on December 8th, 2023 by Clyde Mooney
A Melbourne pub has been fined for its role in the run-away debts and gambling problem of a 16-year-old, whose mother had tried every means to stop him. The Melbourne mother discovered her son was gambling thousands of dollars, and

CLAREMONT OWNERS SUING NATIONAL BUILDER FDC

Posted on December 7th, 2023 by Clyde Mooney
The landlords of AVC’s glittering Claremont Hotel, which re-emerged this year after a massive makeover, are allegedly suing builders FDC Construction over matters relating to ‘breach of contract’. A hotel opened on the site in Perth’s western suburbs in 1886,