Bar keeps late licence after police are rapped

HEARING CRITICISES 'MISLEADING' APPLICATION FOR REVIEW OF HOURS

- NICK HORNER News Reporter

POLICE were criticised at a licensing hearing after wrongly accusing a Birmingham nightclub's door staff of attacking a man who had just been ejected from the venue.

West Midlands Police had called for an expedited review of the licence for the Glamorous bar, in Hurst Street in Birmingham's Gay Village, after an incident outside the venue on March 30.

The force said two people had been lawfully ejected from the venue after an incident then took place outside at around 5.10am.

A man was knocked unconscious and the police claimed the injury was down to a Glamorous doorman, which was later confirmed was not the case.

A statement from Detective Superintendent Dave Sproson, accompanying the licensing review application, said: "Outside the premises the persons ejected from the premises have been involved in a discussion with the door staff.

"This has culminated in door staff attacking the persons ejected and assaulting one of them, rendering them unconscious.