Walkden<\/a>, was meant to attend a hearing at Manchester Magistrates\u2019 Court after previously pleading not guilty to a string of licensing and health offences,” the press release continued.<\/p>\n“After failing to attend, an application was made to proceed and he was subsequently found guilty in his absence.<\/p>\n
“Henareh was convicted in absentia of breaching 12 offences under the Licensing Act 2003, for which he was fined a total of \u00a310,000.<\/p>\n
“He was also fined \u00a3100 for a single breach of the Health Act 2006 relating to the smoking of shisha inside the venue.<\/p>\n
“He was ordered to pay costs of \u00a33,750 and to pay a victim surcharge of \u00a32,000.”<\/p>\n
As a result of these convictions, the council also applied for a forfeiture of the defendant\u2019s personal alcohol licence, which means the defendant would be prohibited from being a licenced premises manager for five years. This was granted.<\/p>\n
Councillor Lee-Ann Igbon, Executive Member for Vibrant Neighbourhoods, said: \u201cThe defendant in this case showed a staggering disregard for the law, thinking they could run their venue as they saw fit, rather than sticking to the terms of the licence which they agreed to.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese rules are in place to keep people safe and as a council we take a very dim view when they are flouted.<\/p>\n
“In spite of repeated warning offending continued to take place, which is why ultimately this had to be settled in court.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to thank our officers for their diligent work in investigating this wrongdoing and for successfully bringing this prosecution to a successful conclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The council say the operator showed a ‘staggering disregard for the law’Sky Lounge restaurant in Chorlton.(Image: Manchester Evening…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,8832,393,4884,2465,8886,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-435903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-chorlton","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-manchester-restaurants","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115230647673670131","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Sky Lounge restaurant in Chorlton.(Image: Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/0_220124skylounge3.jpg\")
The exterior of Sky Lounge in Chorlton(Image: Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n