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Two Liverpool venues could lose their licences this week
The venues face reviews after requests from Merseyside Police
05:00, 17 MAY 2021
Updated
Two Liverpool venues could lose their licences this week as they face crunch meetings following police complaints.
The Spice Lounge, on Liverpool city centre’s Duke Street, and the Wheatsheaf, on East Prescot Road, will both go before the council’s licensing and gambling sub-committee this week.
Merseyside Police requested separate reviews of both premises after events which it said undermine the licensing aims of preventing crime and disorder and protecting public safety.
The Spice Lounge had originally been set to be reviewed last month but that meeting was abandoned after information presented by police at a meeting led to a conflict of interest issue for a committee member.
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2 March 2020: From left, Mohammed Abdul-Wadud, Alex Kofi Donkor, David Larbi and Halil Mohammed of queer rights organisation LGBT+ Rights Ghana. They have been forced into hiding at a safe location in Accra. (Photographs by Carl Collison)
More than two months after fleeing “unprecedented” threats of violence, members of the queer rights organisation LGBT+ Rights Ghana are still in hiding.
“It is very challenging. It takes a lot of toll,” says Alex Kofi Donkor, founder and director of the organisation. “The experiences of the past weeks haven’t been easy … I can only imagine what the others are going through. Because, personally, it was very heavy for me.”
Restaurant manager tells police men in designer clothes drinking beer are workmen
But the men told officers investigating a lockdown breach they had been told by the owner to hide
21:23, 15 APR 2021
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Merseyside Police requested a licence review for The Spice Lounge Bar and Grill after they found a suspected breach of coronavirus lockdown regulations. (Image: Google Maps)
A Liverpool restaurant manager accused of breaking lockdown rules told police officers that men wearing “designer-like” clothes and drinking beer on his premises were workmen, a council meeting was told.
Police said one of the men found in the basement area of The Spice Lounge Bar and Grill in Duke Street as officers entered on February 6 said its owner “told them to hide”.