A teenager who punched a Cookstown nightclub doorman around the head and spat on him, has been ordered to carry out 130 hours of Community Service. Nineteen-year-old Johnathan Lawrence from Callan Bridge Park in Armagh, admitted assaulting the doorman on July 16 2022. Lawrence was also fined £150 with a £15 offender’s levy for obstructing … Read more
A woman assaulted a door supervisor in Inverness night spot Johnny Foxes by spitting on his face then yelled: “A Scotsman put my dog down.” Rosalind Austin (45), from Halifax, was approached by the steward and challenged about a bottle of whisky she had in her bag on the late evening of May 5. Fiscal … Read more
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