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Southampton bouncers will wear body-worn cameras with facial recognition technology to cut down city centre crime in a UK first. The three-month trial will see the cameras, fitted with Reveal facial recognition technology, worn by door staff across seven venues to help identify those who have been barred. GO! Southampton – the city’s Business Improvement … Read more
An aggressive troublemaker with a history of violence lashed out at a doorman during an angry confrontation, leaving his victim with a broken and bleeding nose. Fired-up Richard Campbell later fell foul of the police. He quickly turned nasty again during a furious struggle with an officer while trying to escape, Hull Crown Court heard. … Read more
A drunk man punched and then headbutted a young doorman after he refused him and his dog re-entry to a busy bar. Thomas Moffatt, 33, left the doorman with significant injuries including a broken nose, loose teeth and cuts. Moffatt, from St Austell, appeared at Truro Crown Court for sentence having admitted assault occasioning actual … Read more
On Wednesday 27 September 2023, a Cardiff man was prosecuted at Merthyr Tydfil Magistrates’ Court for working as illegal security. Aymen Essa from Cardiff was fined £100 by Merthyr Tydfil Magistrates’ Court, and he was ordered to pay £846 prosecution costs and a £40 victim surcharge. The prosecution was brought by the Security Industry Authority … Read more
A bar at the centre of an attempted murder probe has claimed trade is ‘down 75 per cent’ due to an enforced and ‘strict’ ID policy. Two bouncers were stabbed at O Bar, on Broad Street, Birmingham, following a disorder inside the venue on Sunday, May 7. The bar had its licence temporarily suspended but … Read more
A GYM owner who assaulted a Whitehaven doorman after being ejected from a pub said he had ‘spiralled out of control with drink’. Ian Chambers, 54, initially denied a charge of assault by beating but changed his plea to guilty after being shown CCTV footage of the incident. Pamela Fee, prosecuting at Workington Magistrates’ Court, … Read more
A man has been convicted of murdering a former doorman outside a pub in Essex. Father-of-two Matt Portwood, 42, was stabbed twice in the neck after an argument at the Haystack Pub in Furtherwick Road in Canvey Island on 4 February. Jamie Lewis, 24, of Bensham Lane, Croydon, south London, was found guilty after a … Read more
A boy was attacked close to where local kids play football on Mersey Road, in Redcar :: Peter Grogan thought something needed to be done The stabbing of a 15-year-old boy has prompted the launch of a pilot scheme to help save lives to be rolled out in Redcar. A pioneering partnership between Cleveland Unit … Read more
Two men have been sentenced for attacking a doorman as he attempted to break up a violence outside a Norwich bar. James Edge and Toby Patman, both 21, admitted punching the security worker following an altercation on August 12 outside Revolución de Cuba on Queens Street. Norwich Magistrates’ Court heard a violent confrontation had broken … Read more
More security guards could have their work licences revoked after a new undercover investigation found fraudulent training. A BBC exposé this week revealed how two London-based training providers offered shortened courses for a higher fee, forged timesheets and, at one, taught ways to “kill and be killed”. The awarding organisations for the training providers have now … Read more