POLICE at Warrington, are seeking a summary review of a town centre bar on the grounds the premises is associated with serious disorder.
The application follows at incident at the premises known as Identity, in Bridge Street, in which a man is alleged to have been punched and knocked to the floor and then kicked about the head.
As a result he sustained a fractured skull, bleeding on the brain and a fractured jaw.
He was taken to the Walton Neurological at Liverpool where he had still not recovered consciousness when he was placed in an induced coma.
The incident was in the early hours of Sunday, October 22 and the victim has still not been able to give an account of what happened to him.
Police have applied for a summary review of the premises which will be considered by the borough council’s licensing committee today.
The committee will consider whether any interim steps should be taken prior to determination of the review.
The options they can consider are:
*Modification of the premises licence
*Banning the sale of alcohol on the premises
*Removing the designated premises supervisor
*Suspending the licence.
Police say they were called to Bridge Street at about 02.29 on Sunday, October 22 to reports of fighting outside the bar.
Inside they found a man lying unconscious on the floor with blood coming from his ears and nose. He was being tended by an off-duty nurse and firefighter.
Officers and medical staff present were concerned that the injuries could be life threatening.
When officers asked to view CCTV it was found staff could not operated the system and officers seized the hard drive to attempt to retrieve images at a later date.
One member of staff was argumentative and un-co-operative. Another, in a statement, said he had carried out serving customers “seeing as behaviour like this was not unusual.”
The town link radio system could not be used to report the assault as it was inoperative – despite the radio link being a condition of the premises licence.
A summary review of the bar must be completed within 28 days of the police application.
