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A University of Glasgow student who attacked bouncers at Glasgow University Union (GUU)’s Hive nightclub has been ordered to pay them £400 in compensation. Third year engineering student Archibald Watters pled guilty to assaulting door staff outside Hive on 4 February 2022 after they refused him entry. The 19-year-old student, originally from Edinburgh, was told … Read more
A man is due to appear in court charged with committing fraud by claiming to be a licensed doorman at a Lancaster sports bar and a Lancaster nightclub. Stephen Paul Hesford, 36, of Clifton Drive, Lytham St Annes, is charged that between June 21, 2023 and July 12, 2023 that he operated as a doorman … Read more
A thug who launched an unprovoked and violent attack on a man after being ejected from a nightclub has been jailed. The victim suffered serious facial injuries when he was punched in the face and struck with a motorbike helmet by Jack Langford. His injuries included an orbital fracture, broken cheek bone, fractured nose and … Read more
A drunken yob has been fined for kicking off outside a city centre pub on the day of the Wear-Tyne Derby. Callum Wood was caught on camera repeatedly approaching a doorman at the Duke of Northumberland, in Newcastle, while gesturing at him and then pushing him. CCTV footage played in court showed how the 20-year-old … Read more
Giving evidence, Cameron Brown, doorman at Eclipse nightclub, said the night was not ‘overly’ busy and there was no trouble prior to the events A nightclub doorman working at the time of Michael Riddiough-Allen’s death said he used his polo shirt to try and stop the bleeding of one of the other stab victims after … Read more
The doorman, named locally as Stuart Baker, was on duty outside premises on King Street at 4.36am today (Monday) when he was assaulted. Caught on CCTV, the attack sees a dark haired man dressed in a white T-shirt, blue jeans and trainers suddenly run into view and smash a bottle over the victim’s head before … Read more
A security guard was hit in the face with a champagne glass by a Woodbury woman at her firm’s Christmas party. Amy Brumwell attacked the doorman at the venue in Exeter because he has ejected one of her party who broken its rules by vaping. The 43-year-old car sales executive was filmed on CCTV as … Read more
CCTV footage shows the moment a doorman grabbed a firearm after a thug pulled out a knife sparking a brawl outside a sports bar. The video footage previously obtained by the ECHO showed a mass brawl outside Parnell’s Sports Bar on South Road, Waterloo at around 11pm on April 13 2022. In the footage a … Read more
An Aberdeen bouncer has been cleared of murdering a north-east dad outside a city centre bar. Jonas Marcius had been on trial at the High Court in Aberdeen for the last three weeks accused of murdering 26-year-old Craig Grant outside Tonik in Bon Accord Street. Marcius denied the charge, which was alleged to have taken … Read more
A shoplifter detains by security staff produced a razor blade before making a throat-slitting gesture towards one of them. Blackburn Magistrates’ Court heard Richard Croskell ran the blade across his own throat and also told a security guard he would kill him. Croskell, 37, of Penistone Street, Burnley, admitted to racially aggravated threatening behaviour, possessing … Read more