Host stabbed in Yarmouth pub attack
A 24-year-old man has been arrested after a licensee was stabbed in the stomach at his pub in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk.
Police were called to the Lady Haven pub in Cobholm at 11.30pm last Thursday.
An ambulance also arrived and the host was treated on site for stab wounds to his stomach. He later had surgery at James Paget Hospital and his condition is described as "not being life threatening".
Anyone with information can call Great Yarmouth CID on 01953 424242.
Bar worker held at knife point in raid
A female bar worker was held at knife-point during a raid at a Southampton pub.
Police said a man walked into the Coopers Arms in Millbank Street at 12.15pm on Monday 25 April. He jumped over the bar and grabbed the woman, holding a knife to her throat.
The attacker raided the till before jumping back over the bar and out of the pub. The woman chased the man as he left but he fled on a push bike.
The offender is described as black, 19 or 20 years old, about 5ft tall and of slim build. He had short black hair and wore a woolly hat, a navy blue and white silky jacket, black or dark blue trousers and black trainers. Anyone with information can call 08450 454545.
Brothers jailed for Barrow pub attack
A man who smashed a glass ashtray into the face of another customer at a Leicestershire pub, leaving the victim unable to close his left eye, has been jailed for five years.
Nicholas Brewin and his brother, Mitchell, were attacking another customer at the the Hammer & Pincers pub in Barrow-upon-Soar when 52-year-old David Gennard stepped in to help, Leicester Crown Court heard last week.
Nicholas, 35, picked up an ashtray and held it behind his back then walked up to Gennard and hit him in the eye.
Gennard's eyelid was partially detached in the incident, and he needed a five-hour operation.
The brothers, both of Birdhill Road, Woodhouse, admitted jointly causing actual bodily harm.
Mitchell was jailed for 18 months for his unprovoked attack he repeatedly kicked and punched a 23-year-old man, the court heard.
Robert Brown, prosecuting, said both brothers had extensive criminal records. Nicholas had 101 previous convictions.
Ram-raid thieves leave empty-handed
Thieves ram-raided a Shropshire pub using a blue van, but left empty-handed.
The incident happened at the Church Wickets in Church Road, Dawley, Telford, between 2.50am and 3.05am last Thursday.
Police said the van, which they believe was stolen, was used to break open the pub doors. The raiders entered the pub but did not steal anything.
The vehicle was later found abandoned in Eyton Road, Dawley. Anyone with information can call 08457 444 888.
Drunk blinded karaoke organiser
A man who blinded a woman with a glass and hit her 14-year-old daughter, because he wanted to sing at karaoke at an Oxfordshire pub, has been jailed for three years and three months.
Fred Butcher, 35, tried to grab the mic from another man, and when karaoke organiser Michelle Bailey tried to intervene, he smashed a glass in her face. She was blinded in one eye.
Oxford Crown Court heard that he struck Bailey's daughter in the face when she went to comfort her, and also assaulted the woman's husband, Steven. Butcher, of Milton Road, Bloxham, originally denied the attacks at the Partridge pub on 21 August. But on the day of his trial last month, he pleaded guilty to two charges of assault by beating, and unlawful wounding with malicious intent.
The court heard that MIchelle Bailey might have to have her eye removed.
John Harrison, mitigating, said Butcher was drunk at the time and was "deeply ashamed" of what he had done.
