Police probe man's death near pub

Three men were arrested and later bailed in connection with the death of a 21-year-old man outside a north London pub. Wayne Kelly, from Neasden,...

Three men were arrested and later bailed in connection with the death of a 21-year-old man outside a north London pub.

Wayne Kelly, from Neasden, was involved in an altercation outside the Harp in West Hendon Broadway soon after he was thrown out of the pub, police said.

Officers were called to the scene at around 12.30am on Sunday morning. Kelly was found in the road with injuries and taken to Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow but died at 2am.

A postmortem on Sunday failed to identify the cause of death and further tests are due this week. Anyone with information can call 020 8358 0400.

Six men face questioning for assault

Six men were arrested and bailed in connection with an assault in the car park of a Cumbrian pub.

A man needed hospital treatment after he and a woman were assaulted outside the Museum pub in Carlisle on Friday 1 April. It is believed that the men were drinking in the pub when an argument flared between them and the couple.

The men are due for more questioning at the police station at the end of the month.

Court fines licensee for police abuse

A licensee was abusive to police who were trying to arrest him after he was ejected from a fellow host's pub.

Steven Hill, 29, was with two other men in the Lion and Lamb in Gosforth, Cumbria, when they were asked to leave because they were barred, Workington Magistrates heard last week.

Police were called and when they arrived, Hill, who at the time ran the Wheatsheaf in Gosforth, was arrested when he intervened on behalf of one of the other men. Hill was also abusive to a female police officer.

Hill told police he had been drinking vodka since 7pm and could not remember much of the evening.

Hill, of Santon Way, Seascale, admitted being drunk and disorderly and resisting arrest. He was fined £110 and ordered to pay £140 costs.

Joe Kelly, mitigating, said his client had been on a staff party and Hill got annoyed when police tried to put his chef in a taxi that was heading in the wrong direction.

Hill has surrendered his licence because he did not think it was appropriate with his conviction.

Doorman's eyelid bitten off' in pub fight

A doorman had his eyelid and eyebrow bitten off during a fight at a Surrey nightclub, Guildford Crown Court heard last Thursday.

Michael Wallis needed facial surgery and a skin graft following the attack at the Embassy in Redhill on 27 June 2004.

Thomas Benson, 29, of West Park Road, Newchapel, was given 200 hours community service and ordered to pay £1,000 compensation after admitting unlawful wounding.

The court heard that the attack happened at 3am after a group of 10 people, including Benson, were asked to leave the club. Benson squared up to Wallis after one of his friends had a glass bottle confiscated by another doorman.

Wallis restrained Benson in a headlock, but the attacker bit his eyebrow and eyelid when the doorman bit Benson's fingers. When Benson was pulled away, the doorman's eye brow and eyelid were ripped off.

Neil Fitzgibbon, mitigating, said Benson did not instigate the violence, and Wallis's injury was "in a large part accidental".

Court told of drunk dad with toddler

A man was drunk inside a Wrexham pub while he was in charge of his two-year-old son, a court has heard.

The 26-year-old, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the child, stopped off for a drink while he was waiting for a bus, Flintshire Magistrates heard last week.

The father admitted being in charge of a child under the influence of alcohol. He was given a 12-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £50 costs.

Wyn Jones, prosecuting, said police were called to the Thirsty Scholar pub in September.

The father appeared drunk and ripped one of their uniforms during a struggle.