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 was punched to the head outside the Coolangatta Hotel, falling and his head striking the […]
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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 an attempt to hold up Toowoomba’s Fiveways Hotel bottleshop on Wednesday night. The drive-through bottleshop
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A shameful incident outside a Gold Coast pub a week ago has escalated, with the victim of an assault dying in hospital on Monday. Around 2:30am on Friday, 4 December, two men “unknown to each other” are reported to have left the Coolangatta Hotel. One of the men was an 18-year-old New Zealand national, who
A Berrimah pub and staff member are recovering after a cunning bandit executed a well-planned robbery, wielding a sword. Last Sunday night the manager of the Hidden Valley Tavern was confronted in the office by a masked man holding a 50 centimetre sword, who demanded money and threatened to go to the terrified woman’s home.
A Victorian Court has issued a reality check to a patron that sparked a violent altercation requiring police involvement in a St Kilda pub. Truck driver and electrician Steven McCormick appeared before Armidale Local Court charged with common assault and failing to leave, after he punched an employee of the hotel several times and had
Five men have been charged following a brawl outside Brisbane’s Boundary Hotel on Sunday night in which two police officers were assaulted and injured. Police were called to the corner of Boundary and Jane Streets shortly after midnight, after the hotel’s closure, where up to 12 men were fighting. A male and female officer trying
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St Kilda’s Fitzroy Street will get a series of live CCTV cameras as part of the Victorian Government’s plan to improve security in crime hot-spots. Ten cameras will be installed along the entertainment strip, streaming directly back to St Kilda police. They will allow police to monitor the entire stretch and address problems that have
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Two NSW hotels have sadly become embroiled in the tragic deaths of two patrons assaulted in the vicinity. Visitor to Coffs Harbour, 26-year-old Kyle Watkins, was struck in a seemingly unprovoked attack soon after leaving the Coffs Hotel with a group of friends around 10:15 pm last Saturday night. One friend witnessed an altercation between
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The Kangaroo Island pub and manager guilty of serving 22 drinks and takeaway to a man who then died driving his car home have finally been sentenced. In June 2013, a regular at the Penneshaw Pub, Anthony Read, drank in the venue for over nine hours and was sold a six-pack of Bundy RTDs as
Rockhampton District Court last week tried the case of two ice users that perpetrated a violent, “gratuitous” robbery at the Brunswick Hotel. Dylan Warcon and Travis Anderson were charged with robbery in company and with personal violence after the assaulted another patron in the hotel in July last year – dragging him out, bashing him,
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