Two men have been charged over fraud offences committed on hotels, with losses totalling more than $150,000. In May 2016, 33-year-old Francesco Donato Giannone went on a gambling spree, visiting three pubs in Mount Gambier. At his recent hearing, the South Australian District Court heard of Giannone’s exploits on the night of 19 May, beginning […]
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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A spate of unlikely violent incidents highlights the unpredictable nature of random acts by people on people, and the near-impossible ask of controlling for everything. In September, 18-year-old Brody David Marston went to the Currimundi Hotel with his brother, drinking and playing pool. Whilst there they met a 32-year-old (unnamed) man not previously known to
A dangerous situation in an east-Brisbane pub has been fended off courtesy of bumbling bandits and a gaming patron with a big stool. Around 11:30 on Monday night (27 November) two masked men entered Coles’ Lord Stanley Hotel on Stanley St, one carrying a rifle the other a machete and a black cloth bag. The
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
Recent activity by AUSTRAC (Australia’s financial intelligence agency, governing anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing) is believed to be part of plans for increased reporting by hospitality operators, says consultant firm Risk Training Australia. Submitted by Phillippa Lloyd, Risk Training Australia AUSTRAC recently published a notice advising all pubs and clubs they do not have
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The alarming increase in assaults in venues, particularly on staff, is evidence of the prevalence of ice in Australia, says AHA SA general manager Ian Horne. Figures out of SA’s Consumer Business Services show pub and club operators in South Australia exercised their right to issue a ban from the premises of up to six
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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