A young man has been charged with grievous bodily harm after reportedly assaulting another man with a glass in a Gold Coast hotel over the weekend. Police report that around 1am on Saturday (7 July) at the Coolangatta Hotel, a 34-year-old man is believed to have asked a woman dancing to stop bumping into him. […]
A pub bouncer is appealing his conviction and sentencing for assault occasioning actual bodily harm, in relation to injuries inflicted on a banned patron. Joseph Tulikaki was employed at a hotel in Orange as a responsible service of alcohol (RSA) marshal. Around 1am on 21 October Tulikaki confronted a patron that had been barred from the
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A “changed man” fronting Wollongong District Court on Friday for a serious assault on a pub security guard became engaged and threw furniture when sentenced to prison. Jesse John Rose and friend Jaye Pearson were captured on CCTV at a Shellharbour hotel on the evening of 21 May, 2016. Pearson reportedly began aggravating another patron,
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
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