Legal

KINGS CROSS BOUNCER CHARGED OVER SELF-DEFENCE PUNCH

Posted on May 4th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
Police have charged a Kings Cross bouncer over a punch to an aggressive patron enraged over being denied entry at lock-out time. Around 1:30 am Tuesday, 14 April, security at a hotel on William Street in Kings Cross refused two

COURT FINES MAN FOR FAILING TO LEAVE PUB

Posted on April 29th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
On Monday Orange Local Court fined a man $1300 over his drunken behaviour and failure to leave a local hotel. Mechanic Benjamin Gray was asked by staff to leave the hotel in the early hours of 4 April, but argued

PUB FIGHT SEES MAN JAILED FOR 6 MONTHS

Posted on April 24th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
Warrnambool Magistrate’s Court this week handed down sentence to a man who wounded four people in a fight but was too drunk to remember. On November 28 last year Andrew John Zibell reportedly drank a “slab of beer” before going

PUB STAFF GUILTY OVER DUI DEATH

Posted on April 10th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
A landmark case that saw hotel staff charged after a drunk patron died in a road crash has reached trial, but the hangover isn’t over yet. [caption id="attachment_1899" align="alignright" width="309"] Anthony Read. Image: The Islander[/caption] In mid-2013 Kangaroo Island resident

BOUNCERS NEAR KILL KNIFE-WIELDING PATRON

Posted on April 8th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
In what could have been a scene from underbelly, a pack of nightclub bouncers from Melbourne’s upmarket CQ Hotel chased down and nearly stabbed to death a patron with his own knife. Career bouncer Remzi Orcanoglu was granted bail in

“GLASSING” PUTS PUB IN THE HOT SEAT

Posted on April 1st, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
A pub in suburban Camden went through the PR wringer this week as shock-hungry media latched onto a police report that mentioned a “glassing”. [caption id="attachment_1829" align="alignright" width="276"] Camden Hotel[/caption] PubTIC contacted the Camden Hotel, which initially resisted discussion on

LICENSEE FINED AND CONVICTED FOR LOCKOUT BREACH

Posted on April 1st, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
The OLGR reports a Sydney publican had a conviction recorded and strike against his venue due to his “specific” involvement in a lockout breach. Licensee of the Hotel Chambers, Chady Khouzame, pleaded guilty in Downing Centre Local Court last Wednesday

HOUSE PARTY SEES MAN SET ON FIRE

Posted on March 16th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
[caption id="attachment_1629" align="alignright" width="239"] Johno Holten. Image: Facebook[/caption] A Sydney teenager is recovering from serious burns after a classic case of stupidity under the influence of alcohol. Sydney Northern beaches 18-year-old Johno Holten is in a stable condition in Royal

PUB STAFF CHARGED OVER PATRON DEATH

Posted on March 13th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
In a sound warning to operators, three staff members of the Penneshaw Hotel are being charged after a patron nearly six times the legal limit died driving home. Local Kangaroo Island resident Anthony Read crashed his ute driving from the

ONE-PUNCH KILLER PLEADS GUILTY

Posted on March 13th, 2015 by Clyde Mooney
A Sydney man has pleaded guilty to the one-punch killing of a Brazilian man outside a Haymarket pub in late 2013. An altercation between Nicholas Lambaditis, 34, and Eric Heward resulted in Heward’s friend, Brazilian national Lucio Rodrigues, also 34,