George Threlfall, defending Coghlan, said his client was a "cheerful, obliging hard worker" who had been pushed away from the pub with inevitable consequences.Those ‘inevitable consequences’ being…
The men walked off, only to return with four-foot long planks of wood.I’ve never been refused service in a pub, but thanks to dear ‘ol George, at least I now know how to react if I ever am.
They then burst into the pub, swung the planks and caused customers to duck.
In the mêlée damage was caused and doorman Alun Green was struck in the mouth and seriously hurt.
It’s inevitable, after all…
3 comments:
Gosh, the old wooden response. He would be a deal sorrier had he been birched and it was pure luck that the bouncer was only hit on the skull.
Its something of a miracle that the Defence "snake" didn't actually claim that they only had the planks because they intended to carry out a completely spontaneous and entirely altruistic internal re-decoration of said pub and that the injured bouncer was simply not au-fait with their plan ;)
"Its something of a miracle that the Defence "snake" didn't actually claim that they only had the planks because they intended to carry out a completely spontaneous and entirely altruistic internal re-decoration of said pub..."
The next one probably will!
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