Legal

MAGISTRATE IN ICE HOTSPOT GOES TOUGH ON BOOZE

Posted on March 11th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
As the spotlight heats up in NSW on the Sydney lockouts and State-wide bottleshop closing times, a border town Victorian Magistrate has publicly questioned local licensing. On 12 April last year two brothers ended a long night of drinking with

PUB DEATH PERPETRATORS RELEASED EARLY ON PAROLE

Posted on March 9th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
Two brothers jailed for a pub fight that killed a man have been released on parole after only 18 months in prison. Mitchell Clay Dowling and his half-brother Jay David Blazely were each sentenced to around two and a half

DIXON PUB SCENE OF SOCCER HOOLIGAN BRAWL

Posted on March 7th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
Inter-city rivalry saw one of Dixon Hospitality’s inner-Melbourne pubs become the scene of a brawl between two groups of soccer fans on Saturday. Victoria Police confirmed they were at the Imperial Hotel, where “There were two groups involved in a

TAG-TEAM PUNCH-UP LEAVES OAKEY MAN IN COMA

Posted on March 7th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
Police are appealing for witnesses to the assault of a man outside a pub that resulted in him being airlifted to hospital in a coma. Around 12:30 am on Sunday, local man Shane Smith got into an altercation with two

QLD HOTEL SECURITY GUARD FACES CHARGE OVER GRIEVOUS BODILY HARM

Posted on March 2nd, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
A security guard from a Surfers Paradise hotel appeared in court over the bashing of a man helping his drunk brother into his room. [caption id="attachment_5305" align="alignright" width="227"] Dennis Faulkner[/caption] Southport Magistrate’s Court heard the sorry tale of a man

MACHETE BANDITS HIT SECOND INNER WEST SYDNEY PUB

Posted on February 10th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
Police in Sydney’s inner west are investigating the latest in late-night pub robberies involving four men, armed with machetes and axes. Ashfield Police confirmed to PubTIC they are investigating a connection between the robbery last night at a pub in

PUB GLASSING PERPETRATOR SLAPPED WITH INTENT

Posted on February 5th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
A man has been charged with wound person with intent to cause grievous bodily harm after glassing another patron at a Newtown hotel on Wednesday evening. NSW Police reported that two men became involved in an altercation in the beer

FOSTER’S SUED IN US FOR BEING ‘UN-AUSTRALIAN’

Posted on January 15th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
Foster’s in the USA is being sued for being ‘un-Australian’ after a fan of the beer discovered his drink was made in Texas. New Yorker Leif Nelson was reportedly ‘devastated’ to learn that his favourite lager, marketed in the States

QUEENSLAND REELING FROM SPATE OF SERIOUS ASSAULTS

Posted on January 11th, 2016 by Clyde Mooney
As Queensland sits on the precipice of a Government foray into lockouts and trade restrictions, a series of cowardly assaults have caused untold pain for victims and industry. In early December of last year, 40-year-old father and grandfather Trevor Duroux

TOY-WIELDING ARMED BANDIT CRIME SPREE FOILED BY PUB

Posted on December 18th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
A teenager’s crime spree ended when a pub owner and manager called his bluff trying to hold up the hotel with a replica gun. 17-year-old Mitchell Arthur Watts has been charged with counts of armed robbery – the third being