A pub and nightclub’s licence is being reviewed after an under-18s party led to children as young as 13 lying drunk and unconscious on the pavement outside.<\/p>\n
The BBC reported<\/a> that a report <\/span><\/a>to Conwy council’s licensing sub-committee said there had been 16 incidents of crime and disorder associated with the premises since April.<\/p>\n Police met the venue days before the birthday party, where it was agreed that “all future under-18 discos would be cancelled”, according to the report.<\/p>\n But on 22 September the Welsh Ambulance Service was called to a report that a 13-year-old “had been drinking, was losing consciousness”. In all, three children were treated at the scene and two were taken to hospital to recover.<\/p>\n “There was concern that children may have also taken cocaine and ketamine,” said the report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n CCTV footage of the children being treated outside the venue was shown to the committee behind closed doors because it was considered too distressing for public viewing.<\/p>\n Emma Priestley, owner of EJP Entertainment, which runs the pub and club, apologised and told Friday’s review hearing she had been let down by a former senior member of staff.<\/p>\n Ms Priestley told the hearing she was distressed by the “disturbing” footage, according to the report. She is reported to have said:<\/p>\n “The protection of children is extremely high on my priorities. <\/em><\/p>\n “It is not how we run our operations and, obviously, I trusted the people to run these operations and I have been very let down by certain people.<\/em><\/p>\n “I can’t apologise enough.”<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n North Wales Police licensing officer Aaron Haggas claimed the company was not taking collective responsibility and attributing the blame to one or two members of staff.<\/p>\n He said the children treated by the paramedics were “simply asked to leave”.<\/p>\n “At one point, a member of the public assists the children as they lie outside on the bench,” he said.<\/em><\/p>\n “Further on, when the police arrive, a child can be seen to be lying face down on the floor outside the front of the premises.<\/em><\/p>\n “It is bad enough that the party has gone ahead.<\/em><\/p>\n “The biggest concern is the response from the premises.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A pub and nightclub’s licence is being reviewed after an under-18s party led to children as young as 13 lying drunk and unconscious on the pavement outside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/instituteoflicensing.org\/news_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}