Two bricklayers have been sentenced and are lucky to escape serious prison time after an incident at a Queensland pub where they terrorised two staff members in a “prolonged” violent attack. Gladstone Magistrates Court heard the report of 24-year-old Zachary John Patrick Stringer and 33-year-old Rhys Paul Finco and their activities on 28 August at …
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An armed heroin user who robbed multiple pubs has been sentenced, and two teens arrested over assault and auto theft of an employee, after a series of incidents in the Newcastle region. Appearing before Newcastle District Court, it was reported that Jesse Nikolovski had been using heroin at a “significant rate” when he robbed or …
The historic Greengate Hotel on Sydney’s north shore has been ordered to pay compensation to a patron, after a court ruled he was assaulted and “falsely imprisoned” by staff and security. James Mansour attended the Greengate in Killara with friends in 2021, aged 20 years at the time. Whilst inside, it’s said another group of …
After years of legal disputes, massive fines and threat of prison, the owners of the site of the former and much-disputed Corkman Irish Pub at Carlton will build a replica of the historic watering hole they illegally demolished. Late 2014 a lease expired on the 1857 Victorian pub and the business closed. It was then …
A hotel has faced court and been hit with over $30k in fines after serving a dessert mistakenly labelled ‘allergen-free’ and nearly killing a patron. According to facts presented before the court, a woman was attending a function at the Pan Pacific in Perth in November last year, at which organisers had informed the hotel …
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The historic Oxford Hotel of North Adelaide has closed amid a multimillion-dollar legal battle between property magnate Con Makris and his daughter, the proprietor. After emigrating to Australia from Greece in 1963, Makris, now 76, took root in Adelaide. He founded Makris Group in 1980, going on to build an extensive portfolio of commercial property, …
A pub employee has been convicted and fined for an over-zealous attempt to stop a patron from drink driving. According to police documents tendered in court, 47-year-old Andrew Winter from Catalina, who works at the Bay View Hotel in Batemans Bay, assaulted a regular patron who was drinking with a friend. The bartender was familiar …
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A man is facing major charges in relation to injuries and the subsequent death of another man, after an altercation at the Lighthouse Hotel on Tuesday (20 June). According to reports, 38-year-old father Matthew James Hayes was behaving inappropriately and “causing a disturbance”, which came to involve a woman at the hotel – the girlfriend …
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Homicide detectives have charged a man over the murder of another man stabbed outside a Victorian pub with his wife, after a celebration. Clint Allen, aged 38, was with a group of people including his wife, Bek, for the occasion of her 37th birthday. At some point after midnight they emerged from the Criterion Hotel …
Victoria’s regulator has hit Tabcorp and the Preston Hotel with multiple charges and launched a wider investigation over reports of minors being allowed to gamble. The Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission (VGCCC) alleges staff at the Preston Hotel allowed a 16-year-old to access electronic betting terminals and place bets on six occasions, between May …
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