Folkestone Herald
15-3-1980
Local News
Brian Houghton went into the East Kent Arms, in Sandgate
Road, Folkestone, at opening time one evening and was refused a drink by the
barman because of his condition. He started shouting and used “foul” language.
The assistant manager, Mr. George Warren, went up to him and Houghton was very
abusive. He took off his jacket and said “I will get you; no bastard is going
to kick me out”.
A police officer arrived and took Houghton, of Bradstone
Road, Folkestone, out of the pub, telling him to go home. But he refused and
was arrested.
Houghton, aged 25, admitted being drunk and disorderly on
March 6 when he appeared before Folkestone Magistrates` Court, and was fined
£15.
Folkestone Herald
13-9-1980
Local News
A hen party in a Folkestone pub ended in a woman being
hit above the eye by a glass. The injury required 18 stitches, Folkestone
Magistrates were told on Tuesday.
Leonard Donald Gerrard, aged 23, of Manor Road,
Folkestone, admitted wounding Miss Christini Gunsun, and was ordered to carry
out 180 hours` community service.
When Gerrard was arrested he admitted throwing the glass
and said he had not intended to hurt anyone, Inspector William Wharf told the
Court. Miss Gunsun was in the East Kent Arms, Sandgate Road, and a hen party
was in progress, with women singing, said the Inspector. A young man started
singing alone and was told to shut up by Gerrard, who pushed him. A fight broke
out in which Miss Gunsun felt a bang on her head as she was picking up her
handbag. The police had been unable to trace the other man in the fight, the
Inspector added.
Gerrard told the Court that he had had a few drinks. “I
did not mean to throw the glass. It sort of happened. I threw it at the floor,
like”, he said.
South Kent Gazette
15-10-1980
Canterbury Crown Court
A barman at the East Kent Arms public house in Folkestone
claimed that a customer had pushed a broken glass into the side of his head and
back when he tried to break up a fight. And Alexander Warren told Canterbury
Crown Court on Friday that his attacker was 25-year-old Glenn Williams, of
Hollands Avenue, Folkestone. Williams, who denied wounding Mr. Warren with
intent to do grievous bodily harm and an alternative charge of malicious
wounding, was acquitted by the jury of both and discharged from the dock.
Mr. Warren, of East Cliff, Folkestone, told the Court he
had been tidying up the bar after a pre-Christmas drink at the pub last year
when a scuffle broke out. “I went to try to sort out the trouble. As I went to
approach them I was grabbed by someone and pushed up against the bar”, he said.
The person was leaning over me, whereupon he swept a load of glasses off the
counter, then he smashed one. It was a spirit glass like a very small goblet.
After smashing the glass he went and stuck the glass in my ear and he also
stuck the glass into my back”. He said he had hospital treatment later for the
injuries, which involved a number of stitches being put into the cuts, and he
was off work for about five days. During the incident he was able to turn and
saw that the attacker was Williams, who was easy to recognise because of hi
bright ginger hair, Mr. Warren said.
The bar manager, Mr. Brian Smart said he saw the incident
and also identified Williams as Warren`s attacker.
Williams denied he had been responsible for the assault.
He claimed he had tried to stop Mr. Warren getting involved in the fight “for
his own good”. He had pushed the other man apart and when one of them tried to
attack Mr. Williams with a glass he took it off him. But Williams was not the
only person with bright ginger hair in the bar that night. There was also
another man with hair the same colour and they were also “much the same age and
build”, he said.
South Kent Gazette
19-5-1982
Local News
Barmaid Ms. Maureen Hoare lost pounds and made money when
her sponsored slim raised £37.40 for Parkfield School. The 39-year-old mother
of three, who originally weighed in at 11 stone ten pounds, lost two stone
three pounds.
A member of Folkestone`s Slimming Magazine slimming club,
Maureen works at the town`s East Kent Arms pub in Sandgate Road. Regulars of
the pub sponsored Maureen, who lives with her family in St. John`s Street, to
raise much-needed cash for the special school in Parkfield Road, Folkestone. On
Thursday a slimline Maureen said “I was slimming anyway, so I though I might as
well try and raise some money by it”.
Folkestone Herald
24-6-1983
Local News
A teenager who assaulted a policeman during a brawl
outside a pub also sent an ex-girlfriend a rotting pheasant`s head and neck.
The youth, 18-year-old Mark Chamberlain, was fined a total of £200 when he
appeared before Folkestone Magistrates last week. He admitted assaulting P.C.
Philip Hendry, causing him actual bodily harm, using threatening behaviour and
sending a “noxious substance” through the post.
Chamberlain, of Cheriton High Street, was in the dock
with four other youths who were fined various amounts for their parts in events
the night of the disturbance outside the Folkestone pub. Danny Brown, 19, and
Alan McClew, 23, both of Dallas Brett Crescent, Folkestone admitted threatening
behaviour. Brown was fined £35 and McClew £30. William Cribben, 21, and Stephen
Maddison, 24, both from High Halden, were each fined £80 with eight penalty
points for taking a car and £60 for having no insurance. Maddison was also fined £30 for
threatening behaviour and £5 for not having a driving licence. He was ordered
to pay £40 legal aid. Cribben was also fined £20 for being drunk and disorderly.
They admitted all the offences.
Mr. Gareth Isaac, prosecuting, described the events which took place on
the night of April 1/2. It was clear all the defendants were affected, to
varying degrees, by drink, he said. Police were called to a disturbance outside
the East Kent Arms in Sandgate Road at 11.50 p.m. When the first officers
arrived they saw a number of young man and women standing outside the pub. Two
of the youths started scuffling, shouting at each other and lashing out with
their fists. Officers tried to separate the youths, one of whom was
Chamberlain, said Mr. Isaac. They managed to restrain him, but he was
struggling, shouting, lashing out with his fists and kicking. Then some friends
grabbed Chamberlain, dragged him away and appeared to be trying to calm him
down. But he continued shouting at youths who appeared to be “on the opposite
side”, ran down the road, grabbed hold of someone and got involved in a
scuffle. Some youths appeared to be still trying to restrain Chamberlain. An
officer pulled him to one side and said he was being arrested. He was put in a
police van and appeared to go berserk, said Mr. Isaac. He lashed out with his
fists and threw himself at P.C. Hendley, who fell backwards, hitting his head
on the seat as he went down.
Although blood was streaming down one side of the officer's face he
managed to keep Chamberlain in the van, which went to the police station. Another officer who went to the scene
thought Brown and McClew were more involved than anyone else in a disturbance. The parcel containing the rotten
pheasant’s head and neck was sent to Mandy Hamill, who was quite sick when she
received it. A few days
later she was in the White Lion pub in Cheriton and remarks Chamberlain made
indicated he was the person responsible. When she went to the police station to complain the head and neck were
in such a bad state they had to be destroyed immediately for health reasons, said Mr. Isaac.
For Chamberlain, Mr. Anthony Curran said the offences were the result
of people drinking too much. Chamberlain
had no recollection of being involved in a scuffle or fighting that night and
did not know the other four defendants. He had drunk a lot of beer and some
vodka. He did not mean to hurt the officer and his injury was not the result of
a blow aimed at him. It seemed Chamberlain was trying to get out of the police
van and was probably too drunk to know why he had been put in it. When he heard
the police wanted to talk to him about the parcel he went to them voluntarily.
He sent it in a fit of pique because he had heard the girl was saying silly
things about his association with a couple of his aunts who are only slightly
older than him.
Brown told the court he went out
and had too much drink and was sorry about what happened. McClew said he just
went out, had a few too many and “got a bit boisterous”. Cribben said he could
not remember much about what happened. It was not intentional and he did not
know why he did it.
Mr. Sproule Bolton, for Maddison, said the taking of the car was probably
as a result of them “topping up” on the drink they had had during the evening.
Folkestone Herald
15-6-1984
Local News
Violence broke out over the weekend as temperatures nudged the seventies. In two
separate attacks with broken bottles, one man was taken to hospital with facial
injuries after a fight in the East Kent public house in
Folkestone, and another man with a four-inch gash to his face after a bottle
attack in the Old High Street.
Folkestone Herald
15-7-1988
Local News
Thirsty summer drinkers in Shepway will have
to wait for all-day pub openings because of a Whitehall glitch. The Government has been forced to delay the controversial new licensing
laws until September 1. This has been
caused by a technical problem at the Home Office which means present “last
orders” for another two months. Then pubs
will be able to serve alcohol from 11a.m. to 11p.m. all week. But not all Shepway landlords reckon it will be worth the bother.
Horace Brickell from the East Cliff Tavern
said “It’s a great idea for some pubs, but for the ones in restricted areas,
like us, it’s not much good.
Where we are placed, it won’t make any difference and it will be a waste
of time staying open”.
William Taylor, landlord of the
Pullman Wine Bar and chairman of the Folkestone and District Licensed Victuallers
Association, said "There is some confusion, but no-one is forced to stay
open. They will be able to choose the hours that suit them.” Mr. Taylor said there were mixed feelings about the changes. “Pubs in busy areas are welcoming them but small, rural or out-of-the-way
places are indifferent. Personally,
I’m in favour. I think it will give flexibility to the licensee and the public. I don’t
think it will cause more drunkenness because people only have a certain amount
of money to spend each week. And I don’t mind the extra hours
involved because we will get extra staff which will help the dole queue”.
Barry Chamberlain from the White Lion in
Cheriton agrees. He said “I
think it’s about time change was made. Pubs will become much more suitable for
families, and will be more like restaurants. We will try to stay open all day. We are just about to redecorate the pub with the new freedom in mind”.
Michael Norris from the East Kent Arms told us
“I’ve accepted that the new laws are coming, although I have mixed feelings about them. I think it’s a shame we are not being allowed to stay open later at night
rather than all afternoon. Of course we
will be making full use of the new hours and will try to serve food all day.
It’s all right for us because we are so centrally placed”.
Eileen Lewis from The Guildhall in The Bayle
summed up the feelings of most landlords when she said “If I’m making money,
I’ll stay open”. She added
“It’s all right for more central pubs, but I can’t see us staying open in
winter. The brewery has asked us to give it a
three-month trial period. Like other pubs, we’ll just have to feel our way when
the change comes”.
Folkestone Herald
8-7-1993
Local News
A Folkestone pub has refused to accept £50 notes because
there are so many forgeries around. Pat Morgan, owner/licensee of the East Kent
Arms, on Sandgate Road, said “We have been getting forgeries, so we`ve stopped
taking fifties. There are problems with £20 notes too. The number we get
varies. It depends when people get paid”. She added “I check the notes we take.
I used to work in a money printer`s so I know how to tell whether a note is a
forgery or not. It`s a secret of the trade, but I`m not telling you what it
is”.
Inspector David Kimber said “There does appear to be an
increase in the number of forged banknotes surrendered to the police”.
Folkestone Herald
13-7-1995
Local News
Thugs befriended a man in a pub only to beat him up and
rob him when he left. The 36-year-old met the three men in the East Kent Arms
in Folkestone`s Sandgate Road precinct in the early evening and drank and
chatted with them for two hours. But Det. Con. Ray Bovis, the police officer
hunting the attackers, said “The three men followed the victim when he went
outside. They asked him to give them his mobile phone and when he refused one
of them broke his nose with a punch to the face. He fell to the ground and they
went on kicking him, then they took his mobile phone and made off”.
The man needed treatment for his injuries at the Royal
Victoria Hospital, Folkestone. The shocked victim, who lives in the town, is
now afraid to be named for fear of reprisals.
Mr. Bovis said “This was a very brutal crime and all the
more shocking because the man had been drinking with the three others in the
pub beforehand, and the attack was totally unprovoked”. He issued an electronic
picture of one of the attackers, who was heard to be called Rob, and had a
Scottish accent. No description of the other two men was given.
Folkestone Herald
5-2-1998
Local News
A man had his face slashed when he tried to defend his
girlfriend in Folkestone town centre. The man called into the East Kent arms
pub in Sandgate Road, leaving his girlfriend outside, when she was approached
by two men. When the boyfriend saw what was happening he left the pub and ran
to the rescue, but he was attacked by the two men with bottles. Anyone with
information about the attack should call police on 850055.
Folkestone Herald
19-3-1998
Toby Jugs
Those of us who enjoy the odd pint – or worse – were
prepared for the usual pounding on Tuesday. How much longer, Toby Jugs wonders,
before we pay more in tax for the cost of our wines, beers and other naughties?
Perhaps it is as well that our liver-corroded and lung-blackened friends are
now having to pay for the cost of their health care. But those of us who
indulge in the odd night out, or desperate evening courtesy of the local
off-licence, are being hammered for our harmless relaxation.
Not surprisingly, my friends at the East Kent Arms are up
in arms at the Chancellor`s latest swipe at those of us who enjoy the odd
tipple. A straw poll of boozers at the hostelry gave the whole puritanical
enterprise the thumbs-down. And quite what sense there is in setting the
figures for these duties is beyond me – I mean, why, say, 4p on wine? Either it
is legal to drink or it is not, and if it is dangerous then why not stick £10
on it, £20, £100 on our booze?
Helen Barton, assistant manager of the East Kent Arms,
hit the nail on the head when she said the rises are just a way of making
ordinary people suffer.
Thomas Merton called the rises “absolutely ludicrous”,
and said with our low-duty-levying neighbours so near, duties should be
scrapped.
Susan Carroll called the rises “ridiculous”, and said the
extra money should come from those who were “paid too much”.
So, here is the mystery – if no-one will admit to liking
the rises why do they happen? Well, Toby Jugs can only say it is that old
hairshirt making its comeback, just as it does with our beloved opinion
pollsters at elections. After all, would you admit in the street to being
against all that money from our vices going to worthy causes? It`s our way of appeasing
our conscience.
Well, Mr. Jugs stands before you and admits it now: I am
for no duty on alcohol whatsoever. I rest my case. Cheers.
Thomas Merton, a drinker at the East Kent Arms, clearly
didn`t hear my question. Before an interesting conversation, sir, on the evils
of tax, the dialogue as you sipped your spirits went like this:
TJ: Do you think the Chancellor should be slamming extra
money on our alcohol and cigarettes?
TM: They are very careful with the service here and they
do particularly good bread rolls.
Folkestone Herald
23-7-1998
Toby Jugs
Drinkers are advised to be on their guard: I`m reliably
informed that some people go to pubs and pinch unfinished drinks. The latest
incident, a regular told me, happened at the East Kent Arms. One minute the
beer was on the table next to him, and the next it was gone. Was it a mistake
or a joke? Jugs wouldn`t like to say, but has a confession to make. In one
incident – years ago, naturally – I reached around, grabbed a drink, and after
a few gulps found it wasn`t mine. Readers, the fight was defused in its early
stages by profuse apologies.
Folkestone Herald 28-10-1999
Maidstone Crown Court
Two soldiers have been
jailed for two and a half years after attacking a man with bottles after he
answered a woman`s screams for help. As a result of the sentence, Jerome
Pinnock and Lee Coe have been thrown out of the Army. Pinnock was about to be
promoted and his “moment of madness” was said to have ruined a promising
career.
Paul True was left bleeding
and in need of some 60 stitches after he was cornered by the two men and had
heavy bottles smashed over his head.
Recorder David Lamdin told
them “You gave him a vicious, brutal beating, both armed with bottles. You
continued to attack him even after you knew he was wounded”.
The cowardly attack
happened after Mr. True went to the East Kent Arms pub in Folkestone on January
21 to get change for snooker tables at the Rendezvous Club in the town. He came
out of the bar to see the squaddies grabbing at the woman. Mr. True ran over
and pushed Pinnock, 23, away. But he was then hit on the head with a Jack
Daniels bottle. Coe, 21, joined in, striking the victim in the face with a
Drambuie bottle.
Mr. True told Maidstone
Crown Court that the two bottles smashed on impact. “My face was wet with
alcohol and blood”, he said. “I went down to the ground. I saw the two men –
they were enjoying it”.
Pinnock stuck the broken
bottle neck in Mr. True`s face before he managed to escape into the pub. Both
he and the woman asked drinkers – including soldiers – for help, but were
ignored. Mr. True grabbed a bar stool and went back outside. He tried to raise
it above his head but dropped it because it was too heavy. Pinnock, described
as being very fit, continued to attack Mr. True and Coe joined in the punching
and kicking. They eventually walked off.
Pinnock was with the Duke
of Wellington Regiment, stationed in Hounslow, London, and due to be promoted
from Private to Lance Corporal. Coe was in the 6th Platoon, based in
Lancashire. At the time of the incident they were on manoeuvres at Lydd.
They denied indecent
assault, wounding with intent, unlawful wounding and affray, claiming they
acted in self-defence. They were convicted of unlawful wounding and affray and
cleared of indecent assault and wounding with intent. Coe admitted two thefts
and three handling charges committed from Worksop Magistrates` Court and was
given an additional six month sentence.
Fiona Moore-Graham, for
Pinnock, said he was remorseful and appalled about his behaviour, which was out
of character. “The Army are very keen on this young man and do not wish to lose
hise services”, she said. “If placed into custody he will lose his career. The
Army has been his life and he wishes to continue. I ask you not to prejudice
his entire career because of what happened that night”.
Judith Butler, for Coe,
said that, unlike Pinnock, he did not have the Army`s support. Neither did he
have the support of his well-to-do family.
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