Almost three years after fighting eviction from Coogee Pavilion for paying rent two days late, Justin Hemmes is suing his lawyers over the deal that nearly made it possible. The celebrated pub baron signed on to purchase the dilapidated multi-level hotel (then called Coogee Palace) in March 2014, swiftly renovating the tired ground level, which […]
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The failed owner of Albany’s historic Premier Hotel has pleaded guilty and received ten years over a scam to fake a robbery and arson in order to claim insurance. Mid-2016 news emerged that lessee Graeme Roderick Cooper – new operator to the 1891 pub – had been beaten and robbed by intruders, who subsequently set
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The Entrance business owner George Habkouk is awaiting trial over the death on New Year’s Day of Haydn Butcher outside a central coast hotel. Wyong Local Court has heard preliminary details of the incident in the early hours of New Year’s Day, involving 49-year-old Habkouk and employees from his pizza business. The group had left
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Adelaide property aristocracy the Polites family is embroiled in a dispute over the failed tenant at its heritage-listed Ambassadors Hotel. The majestic Ambassadors Hotel has been a dominant sight on King William Street in the heart of Adelaide since 1881. Its décor and offering reflect its historic importance, but with “quirk and eccentricity” for flavour.
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The father and son team accused of torching their Ravenswood pub for the insurance money have been convicted and sentenced. A fire on 9 June 2014 destroyed the Junction Hotel, owned by the Jansen family. In the following months, police observed persons of interest and intercepted phone calls between 65-year-old Jozef Jansen and his son
Two brothers are facing charges – separately and together – over alleged matters of fraud at two of Townsville’s favourite pubs, where they worked. 33-year-old Chris Gregory was assistant manager at the Mad Cow Hotel. He came to the attention of police in relation to the theft of around $300,000 from the hotel over two
Three men have been arrested without charge for a pub fight that saw a 51-year-old man die, as a Victorian magistrate poses a clamp-down on alcohol-fuelled violence. Shortly before midnight on Friday (20 October) witnesses say a group of people began fighting outside a pub in Eildon, in eastern central Victoria. Greg Mitchem, from Frankston
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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