Bournemouth director sentenced for supplying illegal security On Thursday 29 June 2023, a Bournemouth company director, and his business were prosecuted at Poole Magistrates’ Court for supplying unlicensed security. The court fined Patrick Briggs £960 and ordered him to pay £1,400.60 prosecution costs and a victim surcharge of £768. The court also fined his business … Read more
Jamie Clark, 33, hurled the remarks at Aman Bining at Glasgow city centre’s Horseshoe Bar on May 5 2023. Court papers state that Clark acted in a racially aggravated manner which was intended to cause Mr Bining alarm and distress. Clark, of Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire, swore at him as well as made racial remarks towards him … Read more
Bexley Magistrates’ Court also ordered him to pay £2,887 compensation to his victim MNX Security. In addition, the same court also sentenced him to do 100 hours unpaid work and pay £85 prosecution costs. The prosecution for fraud was brought by the Security Industry Authority (SIA) and the sentence follows his guilty plea entered on … Read more
A man accused of murdering the cousin of world heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury killed him with a single blow from a knife during a brawl outside a bar, a court has heard. Liam O’Pray, is accused of using a lock-knife to stab Rico Burton, 31, in the neck in a fight outside a bar … Read more
A young security guard at the Ashes has turned his tackle on a Just Stop Oil protestor into an amazing LinkedIn post. During the first day of the second Test of the Ashes, Just Stop Oil protestors ran onto the Lord’s pitch and tried to vandalise the wicket with orange powder. However, before they could … Read more
Christopher Smith, sole director of Prenton-based Storm Secure Ltd was sentenced to a conditional discharge for a period of 12 months and ordered to pay £1,200 prosecution costs and a victim surcharge of £22. The company was handed an absolute discharge. The sentencing followed the prosecutions on 11 May when Mr Smith entered guilty pleas … Read more
Jim Munupe was handed a Conditional Discharge for 12-months. The court also ordered him to pay £200 prosecution costs and a victim surcharge of £26 within 14 days and he now has a criminal record. On 4 October 2022 a counterfeit SIA licence bearing the name of a legitimate licence holder was handed to the … Read more
A man was lucky not to have been killed in a sustained and “brutal” assault by three bouncers outside a popular Peaky Blinders-themed bar in Chelmsford city centre. Essex Police revealed the details of the “near miss” incident outside The Garrison Tavern in its submissions to Chelmsford’s licensing committee asking for a reduction in the … Read more
A student helped a doorman to give a young woman CPR after a fence at a Durham bar collapsed on top of her, a jury has heard. Olivia Burt died when a the decorative screen used to manage the queue at Missoula fell to the ground. The 20-year-old was studying natural sciences at Durham University … Read more
Reigning Scottish beauty queen Lucy Thomson was ejected from the Edinburgh City 7s tournament after being involved in a ‘disturbance’ on Saturday night. The 24-year-old, from Dunfermline, who was crowned Miss Scotland in July last year, was chucked out of the ground amid claims that a member of security was racially abused. A video shows … Read more