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A FORMER Alice Springs publican has been disqualified from holding a liquor licence for 10 years after admitting to selling alcohol out of his taxi 149 times when his pub was forced to close during the COVID-19 lockdown.
The NT Liquor Commission also decided to cancel the licence at the pub - Bojangles Saloon and Restaurant.
On November 5 last year, Anthony Habib pleaded guilty to a multitude of alcohol-related offences in the Local Court at Alice Springs.
He was convicted and sentenced to nine months jail, suspended after one month.
In sentencing Mr Habib, Judge Bamber described the offending as "really significant and appalling offending, which occurred over an extended period". He accepted Habib was genuinely remorseful, that the offending occurred out of financial pressure which had affected his mental health.