Newham councillors last week revoked the licence of the William The Conqueror Public House in Manor Park, after a customer was assaulted and spent three weeks in a coma.

Newham’s licensing Sub-Committee removed the licence following an incident in July, which left a man ejected from the pub and assaulted by at least two people, with serious head injuries.

The victim had life threatening injuries and was placed in an induced coma by the staff at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, who also alerted the police to the attack; otherwise left unreported.

Police officers said that the management’s failure to report the crime meant that evidence was lost and it became difficult to catch the perpetrators. They applied to Newham council on July 29th for the pub’s licence to be suspended as a result of their investigation.

Chair of the committee Councillor Ian Corbett said: “Our top priority is to ensure our public houses are being operated by reputable management teams that care about their customers, strive to protect them and sell alcohol in a responsible way. What we have seen today is a catastrophic breakdown in the management of the William The Conqueror pub and so we have decided to revoke the licence.”

On August 22nd the Committee heard that at the time of the assault Mrs Shararanjeet Lalli had been upstairs cooking diner, seeing the ambulance arrive she contacted staff who told her the man had been ejected from the pub. It was explained to councillors that she did not pursue the matter any further and failed to contact the police or Newham council as her licence conditions expect.

The Committee ruled that Lalli had failed in her duty to protect her customers and removed her right to hold a licence, she has 21 days to lodge an appeal against the committees decision.

Meanwhile two me have been charged in connection to the assault, one with aggravated bodily harm and the second with grievous bodily harm, though its suspected more assailants were involved.