In the Courts

SYDNEY PUBLICAN BUSTED IN DRUG STING

Posted on January 28th, 2022 by Clyde Mooney
A Paddington hotelier has pleaded guilty to drug offences, after a covert operation that resulted in arrests and dozens of charges being laid, News reports. Officers from the Kings Cross drug unit are thought to have stopped 49-year-old Robert Moroney

MAN JAILED OVER ROID-FUELLED RAGE AT PUB

Posted on January 24th, 2022 by Clyde Mooney
A man has been sentenced to less than two years’ prison for a brutal steroid-fuelled attack in late 2020, assaulting a security guard and leaving an innocent patron with permanent injuries. Blakeview resident, 34-year-old Dale Ryan Lush, was drinking at

MAN ARRESTED OVER ROYAL EXCHANGE BLAZE

Posted on December 10th, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
A man has been arrested and charged over a fire at the Royal Exchange Hotel in Marrickville on Tuesday that endangered 20 people inside and killed the pub cat, Whiskey. Police and fire services were called to the Lewis Hotels

WOMAN SENTENCED OVER GLASSING IN MACKAY PUB

Posted on November 24th, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
A 22-year-old woman has been convicted and sentenced for glassing a 35-year-old work colleague at Langford’s Hotel in Mackay. Kytarna Leyland-Rice, a BHP workforce co-ordinator, hit a glass she was holding into the head of another man in her work

LONG-TIME EMPLOYEE CONVICTED OVER NEARLY $100K THEFT

Posted on November 17th, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
A long-time employee of the Calamvale Hotel in Brisbane has been convicted and sentenced over embezzlement of nearly $100k from the business. Simon Te Mahia Phoenix Aramoana, 26, of Marsden, was originally employed as a security guard at the pub.

NOT ALL ROSES IN THE SUNSHINE STATE

Posted on September 10th, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
In vivid contrast to the shuttered venues of NSW and Victoria, the stresses of pandemic life have helped a few too many Queenslanders into court for anti-social behaviour. Enjoying a night out at the Globe Hotel, 20-year-old Bundaberg man Jackson

SAND HILL ROAD HEAD $10bn IN COVID INSURANCE CLAIMS

Posted on June 25th, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
Pub frontrunners Sand Hill Road are prominent in a posse of Australian businesses seeking the payment of interruption insurance over COVID-19, with battles already being fought in the High Court.  Sand Hill Road (SHR) owns and operates nine pubs in

VENUE MANAGER SENTENCED OVER THEFT OF $60K

Posted on May 31st, 2021 by Clyde Mooney
A former venue manager at TSG Geelong has been sentenced over the theft of more than $60k to fund a gambling habit. 36-year-old Adrian Benne worked as a manager at The Sporting Globe in Geelong for several years, until cash