UPDATE: The teenager seen in a video being assaulted by a security guard outside a Coffs hotel has been charged by police with multiple offenses. Video emerged on social media and 7News showing an 18-year-old man being struck by a security guard outside a Coffs Harbour hotel, in the evening of St Patrick’s Day (Friday, […]
Men are not the only perpetrators of antisocial behaviour and as the summer surge begins November saw news of three incidents of violence by women in Australian pubs. Just past midnight into 5 November, a 24-year-old woman is alleged to have struck a 25-year-old in the face with a glass bottle in a Perth pub.
A senseless brawl outside a north Queensland pub has left a man in a coma and a town rallying in support. On Friday, 18 November around 11pm an altercation began between a group of men outside the Court House Hotel in Charters Towers, around 130 kilometres south-west of Townsville. Attempting to break up the fight,
Men in Victoria and Queensland have been hit with tough penalties for their roles in two incidents of antisocial behaviour in pubs. On 6 May at the Railway Hotel in Bannockburn, two men not known to each other got into a verbal altercation, and 33-year-old Lee Wilkinson was pushed to the ground. At some stage
Assailants have been sentenced after serious alcohol-soaked assaults that nearly killed innocent victims, with a Victorian teen facing greater time than two Sydney men. In June, 2015, brothers Kye Smith and Corey Lucas beat and seriously injured Keighery Hotel assistant manager Tony Pearson when he forced them to leave. After drinking “all day” the pair
Popular NSW North Coast pub the Plantation Hotel is backing a local initiative to use trained fighters to raise awareness of the dangers of ‘coward’ punches. Martial arts instructor Michael Landas approached Plantation Hotel general manager Daniel Knox, who was eager to lend support for the anti-violence program. The ‘Don’t Be A Dog’ campaign is
The gutless so-called ‘coward’s punch’ continues to be the weapon of choice for too many drunken men, as Australian pubs continue to bear the brunt of the ugliness. This week has seen news on two more testosterone-charged assaults involving cowards striking unsuspecting security guards at licensed venues. Garth Bradley Clayton was reportedly evicted for “shoulder-barging”
Disturbingly violent incidents continue unabated in the British Isles, offering perspective on the frequency and severity of Australia’s eulogised “epidemic” of violence. UK media issues almost daily reports of alcohol-fuelled violence at licensed premises between highly intoxicated people. The majority would garner national media condemnation and whopping infringement notices for the venues were they to
The Maryborough Liquor Accord has hit out at violence in venues, threatening six-month precinct-wide bans for all involved. A new hours north of Brisbane, Maryborough boasts 14 pubs and the annual ‘World’s Greatest Pub Crawl’ event. Speaking to PubTIC, Brendan Heit, owner of the Criterion Hotel and nightclub, says they hope to protect the industry,
The Derrimut Hotel in the Victorian suburb of Sunshine is continuing its battle with local alcohol-related violence, with reports the hotel has at times been ‘under siege’. Western Metropolitan MP Bernie Finn told Victorian State Parliament that regular antisocial behaviour at a nearby park was negatively affecting the hotel, which had been forced to employ
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