Folkestone Herald 14-1-1961
Local News
Stated to have shouted and struggled all the way to
Folkestone police station after his arrest outside the Clarendon public house,
Tontine Street, on New Year`s Eve, Anthony Edward Bennett, of 6, Ferndale Road,
Clapham North, London S.W.4, was fined £2 at Folkestone Magistrates` Court on
Tuesday for being drunk and disorderly.
P.C. John Cave said that at 9.25 p.m. on December 31st,
acting on information received, he went to Tontine Street where he saw Bennett
shouting and staggering about on the pavement outside the Clarendon. He heard
the landlord of the public house tell him “I am not allowing you into the bar
or serving you any more drink”. P.C. Cave said he handcuffed Bennett when he
became violent and took him by car to Folkestone police station. He struggled
and shouted all the way there. When charged with the offence at 10.55 a.m. next
day, the man replied “If you found me in that state there is nothing I can say
except I am sorry”.
Bennett told the court that after arriving in Folkestone from London he had four bottles of beer and
a whisky, and then went to his girl friend’s house, where he had some wine. “From
the time I went to the girl friend’s house I don’t recollect leaving there”,
he said. He claimed that
his condition when arrested was due to the fact that he suffered from blackouts
rather than to drink.
The following application for transfer of licence was granted by the
Folkestone Licensing Magistrates on Wednesday: Clarendon Hotel, Folkestone, from Mr. C.R. Lerwill to Mr. R. Tudhope.
Folkestone Gazette
17-4-1963
Local News
Folkestone Gazette
19-5-1965
Local News
A warning that bad behaviour in public houses would not
be tolerated was given by the Chairman, Mr. Graham Hills, at Folkestone
Magistrates` Court on Friday.
The warning was given to £15-a-week bricklayer James
O`Connor, of 19, Millfield, Folkestone. He had pleaded Guilty to causing £13 12s. 6d. of wilful damage by breaking a plate glass
window at the Clarendon public house, Tontine Street. The Court was told that
O’Connor was one of three men who were asked to leave the house. A few minutes
later a window was smashed with a glass.
O’Connor was fined £5
and ordered to make restitution.
Folkestone Herald 8-2-1969
Local News
Allegations that a Folkestone police officer
grabbed hold of a man’s scarf and twisted it until he went “funny colours” were
made at Folkestone Magistrates` court on Tuesday.
The man with the scarf was 22-year-old Barry Pattinson, of Darby Road,
Folkestone, accused of assaulting a police officer and failing to quit
licensed premises when requested. With
him in court were his brother, Alan Martin Pattinson, of the same address,
accused of wilfully obstructing a police officer: Victor Leo Drew, aged 25, of
Manor Road, Folkestone, accused of assaulting a police officer and failing to
quit licensed premises when requested; and Geoffrey Edward Daniels, aged 20, of
Harbour Way, Folkestone, accused of wilfully obstructing a police officer.
All pleaded Not Guilty.
Drew was found Not Guilty of assaulting a police officer
but guilty of failing to quit licensed premises when requested. He was fined
£5. Barry Pattinson
was also cleared of assaulting a police officer but was found Guilty of failing
to quit licensed premises. He was fined £5. Alan Pattinson, found Guilty of
wilfully obstructing a police officer, was fined £10 and Daniels, also found
Guilty of obstructing a police officer, was fined £10. They were each ordered
to pay two guineas costs and 6s. 3d. expenses.
The alleged incident occurred on December 20 at the Clarendon Hotel in
Tontine Street, Folkestone, after police had been called to the hotel by the
licensee, Mr. Walter Blades.
Mr. Blades told the Court that he called the police after Pattinson`s
sister, Helga, who had previously been banned from the public house, refused to
leave. When P.C. Albert Edward Short arrived he asked him to repeat his request
to Miss Pattinson. The four defendants were also present, said Mr. Blades.
Barry Pattinson and Drew were behind him, and Daniels was sitting with Miss
Pattinson. "I saw Drew push Barry Pattinson into the back of P.C. Short”, he
said. “Beer was spilled over the officer. I told him that he had better order the two defendants
out as well, as they had created a disturbance”. Mr. Blades added that he telephoned the police
for further assistance. “When I came back I saw Barry Pattinson grab the police officer by the
tunic. There was a lot of jeering going on, but no assistance was given by
anyone”.
Mr. N. St. John Williams, defending, asked Mr. Blades if he saw the
officer grab a scarf round the neck of one of the defendants and exert
pressure. He replied “No, I did not”.
Mr. Williams asked if the woman who had been requested to leave had been
drunk, disorderly, quarrelsome or violent. Mr. Blades replied that she had not,
but he thought he was justified as she had been banned from the public house
previously. He admitted that when he went to telephone the police he had taken
with him a handbag belonging to Miss Pattinson, but said that he only had it
for about a minute.
P.C. Short told the Court that when he arrived at the hotel he saw Mr.
Blades and as a result of what he said he went to a table in the saloon where a
girl was sitting near Alan Pattinson and Daniels. He told the licensee to ask
the girl to go. Mr. Blades asked Miss Pattinson to leave the premises and she
asked “Why should I?” After he had asked the licensee to explain why the girl
was being asked to leave, P.C. Short said he felt “a violent bang in my back
and felt beer run down it. Directly behind me was Barry Pattinson and behind
him was Drew. I told them both to behave themselves”. Then, said P.C. Short, he
received a violent blow on the back of his right knee. He told Barry Pattinson
he was arresting him for assaulting an officer in the execution of his duty. “I
took hold of his arms, and then Drew hit me on the right shoulder. I then took
hold of Drew and said he was being arrested for obstruction. They were both struggling. Alan
Pattinson got up from the table and grabbed my right arm, and Daniels grabbed my
left arm”. As a
result the two men he was holding broke free, he said. People were shouting and
jeering and making a noise. “When I lost Drew and Barry Pattinson I took hold
of Daniels and Alan Pattinson”, said the officer. “I told them I was arresting
them for obstructing me. Daniels escaped by slipping out of his jersey”.
P.C. Short said that he later saw
Daniels at his home and he made no reply when cautioned. Drew, when cautioned, denied the offences and said
that P.C. Short was a liar. Alan Pattinson said that he did not wish to say
anything until he had seen his solicitor, and Barry Pattinson replied “My
charge for assault against you will be coming after Christmas”.
Asked
by Mr. Williams if he remembered Barry Pattinson wearing a scarf, P.C. Short
said that he could not.
“You
lost your temper, didn`t you?” asked Mr. Williams. “You grabbed the scarf round
Barry Pattinson`s neck and twisted it violently?”
“That
is not true,” replied P.C. Short. He
agreed that he did not ask Barry Pattinson what he meant when he made the remark
about the charge against him, but added that he had informed his superior
officer.
Drew
told the Magistrates that he went to the public house at about 9.20 p.m. with his girl friend. He ordered drinks and
went to a table. A policeman entered the bar and he heard parts of a conversation in which
a woman was asked to leave but did not pay much attention.
He noticed that beer had been spilled on the officer’s back but he had
nothing to do with it. “As I turned
to leave the bar I saw the police officer grab Barry by the scarf. Barry`s
brother tried to stop him. He just tried to pull the police officer`s arm off
the scarf. We got as far as the juke box and the police officer looked towards
me and said “Someone come and help me”.
“I thought it was funny at the time, and laughed”, said Drew, “and the
officer said “I am arresting you also””.
Replying to Mr. R.A. Webb, prosecuting, Drew denied that he had thumped
P.C. Short, and he also denied that he had been asked to leave the premises.
Barry Pattinson said as he approached the officer someone pushed him and
beer spilled from his glass. It was not deliberate and he apologised to the
policeman. Then the officer grabbed his scarf and started choking him. “I did
not give him any cause at all to grab me”, added Pattinson. “I tried to push
him off because he was choking me and the next thing I knew was when my brother
got hold of his arm and tried to get him off me”. He had to stop the officer
from twisting his scarf but did not assault or strike him. He did not spill
beer over him on purpose.
Eighteen-year-old Miss Helga Pattinson, of Darby Road, said when she went
to the hotel with her brother she was not asked to leave. Later the landlord
came over to them at a table and said “I thought I told you to get out of here
once”. Miss Pattinson said Mr. Blades did not give her a chance to do anything.
“He took my handbag and my coat and went upstairs. When he returned he did not
say anything”, she said. When P.C. Short arrived she could not leave because
the landlord had her handbag and coat. When P.C. Short grabbed hold of Barry’s
scarf his face went funny colours because the policeman was twisting and
pulling the scarf.
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