Three jailed for attack on Bacup club stewards (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Three jailed for attack on Bacup club stewards
12:07pm Friday 2nd December 2011 in Bacup
THREE members of a gang who brought terror to a social club, where the steward and stewardess were subjected to vicious attacks, have been jailed.
Burnley Crown Court heard how stewardess Emma Pearson was kicked to the head, stamped on and left unconscious in the incident at Th'Owd Con Club in Irwell Terrace, Bacup, whilst her husband John was headbutted and thumped.
James Mulcahy, 22, of Tong Lane, who started the trouble by headbutting Mr Pearson, was locked up for 11 months.
Catherine Mulcahy, 29, of Russell Street, who assaulted Mrs Pearson, received 28 months behind bars. Bridie Sparks, 23, of Market Street, who punched Mr Pearson, got eight months.
Patrick Mulcahy, 26, James’s uncle, of Tong Lane, walked free from court, after admitting using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour.
He received 14 weeks in custody, suspended for a year, with 120 hours unpaid work.
All defendants, who live in Bacup, were banned from the club for two years.
James and Catherine Mulcahy and Sparks all pleaded guilty to assault and affray.
The court was told the violence began after James Mulcahy took exception to something the landlord said.
Mulcahy was then seen hitting and kicking two people, one of whom might have been the landlord again.
Catherine Mulcahy launched a ‘quite deliberate’ assault on the landlady after Sparks snatched the phone from the victim as she tried to call the police.
Mrs Pearson was hit around the head with a shoe, fell down and was then kicked in the head and stamped on.
Mulcahy waved her shoe around and went on the rampage, hitting people and smashing a stool.
Sentencing, Judge Lunt said: “Any violence against licencees will not be tolerated.
"There must be an immediate custodial sentence.”
Comments(14)
disgusted tunbridge wells
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3:56pm Fri 2 Dec 11
Dan_Sugerman
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4:47pm Fri 2 Dec 11
Manuel Hung
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4:53pm Fri 2 Dec 11
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Bacup at it's best!
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N0bbers!!!
happycyclist
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5:27pm Fri 2 Dec 11
Manuel Hung wrote:LOL!
Absolute quality!
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Bacup at it's best!
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N0bbers!!!
happycyclist
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5:29pm Fri 2 Dec 11
Or give them to the army to use as targets.
HelmshoreBoy
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6:38pm Fri 2 Dec 11
The local police know them and so do the rest of Bacup, but have failed to do anything constructive. This lack of action cost one poor girl her life thanks to them! SCUM!
James-Bacup
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9:12pm Fri 2 Dec 11
Your ferret stinks
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8:31am Sat 3 Dec 11
juanbbien
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10:43am Sat 3 Dec 11
disgusted tunbridge wells
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8:56pm Sat 3 Dec 11
Dave Harwood
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11:25am Sun 4 Dec 11
SydneyNSW
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12:11pm Sun 4 Dec 11
lou9697
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9:02am Mon 5 Dec 11
HelmshoreBoy wrote:maybe the pied piper will grow up now he has extra responsabilities i think not scum the lot of em!
These two families of inbreds plus the other three well known pond dwellers have run riot in the town, as if they own, it for decades. Get rid of them and you will solve 95% of Bacup's problems.
The local police know them and so do the rest of Bacup, but have failed to do anything constructive. This lack of action cost one poor girl her life thanks to them! SCUM!
BacupBoy says...
12:21pm Fri 2 Dec 11
Not