A pub employee has been jailed for racking up almost $50,000 in debt on the hotel’s account, in a flurry of betting that “spiralled out of control”. The Geelong Advertiser reports the case of 28-year-old Jonathan Bush, appearing before Geelong Magistrate’s Courts on the charge of obtaining financial advantage by deception over a betting spree […]
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UPDATE: A publican that defrauded the TAB of more than $22,000 in order to pay wages and bills has been found guilty and sentenced to corrections orders. David Anthony Brace was manager at the Red Steer Hotel-Motel and Palm & Pawn Tavern, in Wagga Wagga, working for an owner who resided in Queensland. He reportedly
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UPDATE: One of the men charged with the coward-punch death of teenager Cole Miller last year has walked free on time served. 21-year-old New Zealander Daniel Maxwell and his friend 22-year-old Armstrong Renata both plead guilty to charges arising from their roles in the death of Miller, which followed an incident in the early hours
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A very determined thief is facing charges after being arrested attempting to wheel a large safe he stole from a Rozelle pub down Victoria Road in a shopping trolley. NSW Police reported the case of a man spotted manoeuvring a safe estimated to weigh hundreds of kilograms along busy Victoria Road at Rozelle. It is
A gaming room employee of the Young Australian Hotel has been sentenced to nine months’ jail and ordered to repay $12,957 she stole over a period of nearly two years. 29-year-old mother of two Ashlee Walker appeared again last week before Bundaberg Magistrates Court, over charges relating to the theft of money between August 2015
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Years after its closure, former guard Fady Taiba is suing Bar 333 and his employer, Prime Security, over injuries sustained in a coward punch by a drunken finance worker. On the evening of Friday, 6 September 2013, Taiba was working solo at the door of busy George Street venue Bar 333, and refused entry to
The so-called cowboy developers of Carlton’s historic Corkman Irish Pub have further distanced themselves from the mandated rebuild, now suing the planning minister over height limit. Stefce Kutlesovski and Raman Shaqiri purchased the 1858 pub two years ago for $4.76m, with ideas for a multi-storey development on the prominent corner at 160 Leicester Street, Carlton.
A man has been charged and two remain in hospital following a rampage at the Rocksia Hotel in Arncliffe where an evicted patron returned to seek revenge with a knife. A 37-year-old local man came to the Feros Group’s Rocksia late on Saturday night, and purchased a number of drinks over two hours. Although showing
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UPDATE: A Gold Coast hotel security guard has been found guilty of grievous bodily harm, for knocking out and breaking the jaw of a Sydney licensee in February, 2014. Southport District Court last week heard the case of 42-year-old hotel security guard, New Zealand-born former soldier Dennis Hecta Tipene Faulkner. In the early hours of
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A publican has pleaded guilty in Wagga Local Court to two counts of fraud, regarding 22 TAB vouchers he issued himself and cashed to pay wages and bills. David Anthony Brace was manager at the Red Steer Hotel-Motel and Palm & Pawn Tavern, in Wagga Wagga. Appearing in Wagga Court on Wednesday, Brace pleaded guilty
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