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<\/p>\nMary McGinley also tried to punch a chef after her party arrived half an hour late for their dinner reservation and were turned away<\/p>\n
17:33, 17 Feb 2026Updated 06:00, 18 Feb 2026<\/p>\n
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Mary McGinley outside Liverpool Crown Court(Image: Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n
A nan whacked a waiter with her high heels and tried to punch a chef after showing up late for her dinner reservation at Miller and Carter. Mary McGinley and her party showed up late for a planned birthday meal at the steakhouse’s Albert Dock<\/a> branch and were turned away due to the kitchen having closed.<\/p>\n But matters then turned violent, with members of staff being forced to defend themselves using a chair and by placing one of the customers into a “bear hug”. The grandmother-of-two was spared an immediate prison sentence over the altercation, however.<\/p>\n Liverpool Crown Court<\/a> heard yesterday, Tuesday, that Angelo Muto and Maderson Roche-Jones were both working at the Liverpool city centre<\/a> restaurant on December 7 2022 when McGinley, of White Moss Road South in Skelmersdale<\/a>, arrived as part of a group who were “there to celebrate a birthday” at 10.15pm. But, having made a booking for 9.45pm, they were informed that the kitchen had since closed and were instead shown to the bar area.<\/p>\n Isabella Denn-White, prosecuting, outlined how two male members of the party were thereafter unable to produce identification proving that they were aged over 18 and were refused service of alcohol as a result. All of their number were then asked to leave but continued to “hang around outside” the building.<\/p>\n Later, the “atmosphere deteriorated”, leading to the group shouting at Mr Roche-Jones and some forcing their way back into the restaurant. With these customers having reportedly turned aggressive towards the member of staff and “raised fists”, he took hold of a chair in order to defend himself while backing away through the premesis.<\/p>\n McGinley then took off her high heeled shoe and used it to strike Mr Roche-Jones over the head, at which stage chef Mr Muto left the kitchen in order to intervene by putting a male “ringleader in a bear hug” and attempting to eject him. But this man responded by hitting the employee to the back of the head, causing him to fall to the ground.<\/p>\n At this, McGinley was said to have attempted to punch Mr Muto several times to the face, leaving him with a laceration and lump to the head and swelling to his right eye. He described in a statement how he had been left “very stressed and shaken” as a result of the incident and said: “Nobody has the right to assault me at my place of work. I’m disgusted with their behaviour.”<\/p>\n Mr Roche-Jones meanwhile sustained a lump to the back of his head and bruising to the ribs. He added in his own statement: “When the incident took place, I was scared as I didn’t know what they were going to do. I’m worried something like this could happen again.”<\/p>\n The group subsequently left after being told that the police had been called. McGinley was thereafter traced via the reservation she had made at the restaurant but failed to attend a scheduled interview with Merseyside Police.<\/p>\n This led to the 42-year-old’s belated arrest a year later in December 2023. She has three previous convictions for 11 offences, including theft and obstructing police.<\/p>\n Mary McGinley outside Liverpool Crown Court(Image: Liverpool Echo)<\/p>\n McGinley was said to have suffered from mental health issues previously and also experienced a recent family bereavement in Ireland, where she was planning to travel in the near future in order to support her father. Chris Macmaster, defending, told the court of the assault: “There is a shoe in the hand that is used.<\/p>\n “There are others involved in the altercation. One of the complainants is utilising a chair, arguably defensively, but there is a measure of an altercation involving others before Ms McGinley becomes involved.<\/p>\n “I am instructed that the only people who reside at her address are her and her children and two grandchildren. She was proposing to return to Ireland for a week or two on Friday. Her father is now alone. Her long term life is to be at the address in Skelmersdale with her family.”<\/p>\n McGinley admitted assault occasioning actual bodily harm and assault by beating. Appearing in the dock wearing a black blazer over dark clothing and sporting shoulder length black hair, she was handed a six month imprisonment suspended for 18 months.<\/p>\n Recorder Mark Ainsworth also imposed a rehabilitation activity requirement of up to 10 days. She will be required to serve a three-month electronically monitored curfew from 9pm to 5am as part of the order.<\/p>\n A second defendant, Charlie Doherty, previously pleaded guilty to a public order offence in relation to the incident, which fell on the date of his 18th birthday. The now 21-year-old, also of White Moss Road South, was handed a conditional discharge by the same court in September 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mary McGinley also tried to punch a chef after her party arrived half an hour late for their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[8815],"tags":[22355,748,30,188,393,4884,179,2349,72971,16,15],"class_list":["post-772156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liverpool","tag-albert-dock","tag-britain","tag-courts","tag-crime","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-liverpool","tag-liverpool-city-centre","tag-skelmersdale","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116090568039062094","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772156","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=772156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Mary](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0_Mary-McGinley-1.jpg\")
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