A policeman elbowed a doorman in the face on a night out with colleagues, a misconduct panel will be told. PC Saul Gavaghan of West Yorkshire Police was off-duty and ‘in drink’ on a work team night out in Leeds city centre when the incident happened on December 1, 2023. West Yorkshire Police has now … Read more
Andrew James, aged 42, orchestrated a plan to steal a man’s watch at the Castle & Falcon pub in Balsall Heath, which led to accomplice Abdoulie Anderson, 21, shooting a security guard. A doorman was shot at a Birmingham pub after a gang’s plot to rob a man’s Rolex went wrong. Andrew James, aged 42, … Read more
A security guard who fled down the M6 after brutally killing an army veteran and hiding his body in the woods has been found guilty by a jury. Jack Crawley, 20, was today found guilty of murdering Paul Taylor following a trial at Carlisle Crown Court. He was also found guilty of the attempted murder … Read more
The funeral for Mohammed Aerfan Qurban, 54, of Bradford, was held yesterday (Friday) after he died in hospital following an altercation outside a pub in Pontefract where he was a doorman. The incident took place just before 10pm on September 28 outside the Beastfair Vaults in Pontefract. A 31-year-old man has been arrested and bailed … Read more
A man has been given a suspended sentence for fraud after he used someone else’s SIA licence to work illegally at a venue in Newcastle. An SIA investigation found that Samuel Miller committed fraud by lying to his employers and working unlicensed as a door supervisor at City Vaults in Newcastle. He worked multiple shifts … Read more
A boozed-up thug punched a man outside of a bar leaving him with a dislocated ankle before spitting and kicking police. Karl Webster, 33, carried out the shocking attack outside of Bar One, in Hartlepool, as his victim walked home. Teesside Crown Court heard the man had been celebrating an upcoming wedding at a relative’s … Read more
A homeless thief was heard laughing after stabbing a shopping centre security guard with a pair of scissors. Lee Vickers, 23, was jailed for 12 months at Teesside Crown Court on Tuesday after a terrifying incident outside of The Cleveland Shopping Centre, in Middlesbrough in July. Prosecutor Annelise Haugstad told the court it was around … Read more
A man who ‘accidentally’ glassed his friend in the face in a pub beer garden in Lancaster has avoided jail. Jack Grieve-Robson, 32, was on bail for an attack on another man in an alley in Lancaster when he assaulted his friend, Preston Crown Court heard. During the first attack, Grieve-Robson, an off-duty doorman, was … Read more
Butlin’s has suspended a group of security guards at one of its holiday destinations after trans women were allegedly pulled out of a woman’s toilets. Five transgender women were reportedly “violently dragged” out of the single-sex toilets during a music event called Bang Face on October 5 at the chain’s Skegness holiday camp. The firm … Read more
Police disturbed a sleeping security guard while responding to a potential burglary. Officers were called to repots of a suspicious vehicle parked outside a shop on Faringdon Market Place yesterday evening (October 4). The caller’s suspicions were raised because the lights had come on inside the shop even though it was closed. Officers from Thames … Read more