The bouncer at Preston's Stanley Arms was racially abused before being physically attacked
A bouncer was so troubled about the way a marred Preston pub was being run that he reported it to the city licensing bosses after he was left as the lone member of door staff on a busy Saturday night. He was then attacked and racially abused.
The venue has been closed for almost a fortnight after a post on one of its social media accounts announced that it had fallen victim to “licensing pressures” ahead of the hearing. The committee was told that the Stanley Arms’ now former landlord, Paul Butcher, last week relinquished his status as both the designated premises supervisor and the premises licence holder, with the latter now having transferred to the pub company which owns the site, Star Pubs and Bars.
The meeting heard details of a raft of incidents which had given police licensing officer Stephen Connolly cause for concern this year. These included the experience of the door supervisor who had reported his employer to the town hall. CCTV footage showed the vessel being thrown from outside the venue by a man who had taken his shirt off and, PC Connolly said, was challenging the door supervisor to a fight in the street. In an email to the city council several days later, the bouncer called on the authority to “finally act and set a good example for the town by shutting this pub down” – a demand that the police officer said was “quite damning”.
“Multiple females rolling around on the floor, hair being pulled strikes being thrown,” said PC Connolly, who condemned the delay that there had been in calling the police. A bar worker was bitten during the fracas, in behaviour which the officer described as “animalistic”.
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