Bath landlady blasts police over pub incident
The landlady of a Batheaston pub caught up in an incident over the Jubilee weekend has blasted the police for the way they responded to it.
Last week the Chronicle reported on an altercation in the village on Sunday, June 4, which resulted in officers using CS spray against members of the public.
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The police said they had been called to an assault in a car park and that when they took the victim into the White Lion pub, a fight began and officers had been put in danger.
Now Paula Day, who has run the White Lion for 12 years, has responded to the police's version of events and defended her business and customers. She said the initial assault which sparked the trouble did not happen in her pub or car park and that the police had been heavy-handed in the way they had dealt with it.
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She said: "I only knew there was any trouble when I heard the police sirens go by. It did not happen in my pub car park, we don't even have a car park.
"The policewoman asked if they could take him (the victim) out of the rain into my pub."
Ms Day said there had then been an exchange between the victim and one of her regulars and that the police had jumped on the regular "like a tonne of bricks".
"They just CS sprayed everybody, about 12 people, and one of them had burns on his face for the next three weeks. They sprayed somebody outside just a foot away from his face."
One of her customers Helen Fisher, who lives in Batheaston, has also questioned the way the police handled the incident and said villagers had been left angry by what had happened.
She said: "Many innocent people were left frightened, bewildered and angry by the police's actions."
A 23-year-old man, from Batheaston, was arrested on suspicion of assault causing actual bodily harm and has been released on police bail pending further inquiries.
A 47-year-old man, also from Batheaston, was arrested on suspicion of affray and assaulting a police officer. He was also later bailed.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Bath police on 101.
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Comments
by DaveF_Walcot
Friday, June 29 2012, 8:53PM
“"Like you I wasn't there and know none of the details other than what was reported in the Chronicle."
Look it up.”
by lamail
Friday, June 29 2012, 8:44PM
“She seems like a warm hearted welcoming sort - appen oi'll ave a point - not.”
by capndave
Friday, June 29 2012, 8:18PM
“She has a very similar pose to another lady on here. Perhaps she could run a nursery instead of a pub and have some Gypsies in her back garden.”
by rogerh3
Friday, June 29 2012, 5:02PM
“But weren't they there to arrest a yob at that address only to be confronted with a mob of his yobbish mates?"
I've no idea. Like you I wasn't there and know none of the details other than what was reported in the Chronicle. It's interesting that so many people who didn't witness this incident either are just as ready to exonerate the police.”
by Viscount_V
Friday, June 29 2012, 2:54PM
“Aah! The Fight Lion, tis a brave local who runs the gauntlet past its good men and women of the kerbside garden.”
by mcbain1212
Friday, June 29 2012, 2:27PM
“Interesting, people negative rating comments about incidents that actually took place. That's the mentality I'd expect of the people on here.”
by DaveF_Walcot
Friday, June 29 2012, 1:31PM
“"I seem to remember a similar story from a year or so ago when the police (allegedly) did the same thing at someone's barbeque."
But weren't they there to arrest a yob at that address only to be confronted with a mob of his yobbish mates?”
by mcbain1212
Friday, June 29 2012, 11:35AM
“Or the use of a Taser on the chap in Yorkshire who was actually in a diabetic coma....”
by mcbain1212
Friday, June 29 2012, 11:23AM
“"They don't just start spraying people with CS gas for no reason."
Hmm I think the people at various peaceful protests where it has been used might argue that.”
by eyekantspel
Friday, June 29 2012, 2:46AM
“Drink make idiots even bigger idiots! Well done the police for doing a GREAT JOB! I'd use the CS spray in a heart beat against an idiot any day or night! The 'burn' is nothing to worry about it just helps to remind you for a few days after that you are an idiot AND then you forget about it because you are and idiot!”