{"id":686902,"date":"2026-01-10T14:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T14:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/686902\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T14:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T14:32:10","slug":"west-bromwich-pub-applies-to-get-licence-back-after-baton-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/686902\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bromwich pub applies to get licence back after baton attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It said a &#8220;police-style baton&#8221; was passed to a member of door staff by bar staff and was used in view of Mr Singh, who did not call 999 &#8220;for a considerable time after&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">CCTV footage of the alleged attack was shown in private, but was described as &#8220;horrific&#8221; and &#8220;horrifying&#8221; by both police and licence committee member and Sandwell Councillor Richard Jeffcoat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Officers called to reports of &#8220;three members of the public bleeding from the head&#8221; said they ran into difficulties with the venue and it took  &#8220;around 40 minutes&#8221; to find out what had happened from Mr Singh and his staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Singh&#8217;s representative admitted the CCTV footage of the attack made for &#8220;unpleasant viewing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, the representative said the pub owner had been &#8220;misled by casual staff&#8221; over their right to work as well as the unauthorised doorman, who had worked at the pub for &#8220;some time&#8221; and who Mr Singh believed held a licence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It said a &#8220;police-style baton&#8221; was passed to a member of door staff by bar staff and was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-686902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686902","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=686902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}