However the committee agreed to allow it to reopen with additional conditions to improve safety as they said the incident was a ‘one off’. GMP and the council’s licensing and out of hours team had called for the club, which was formerly Press Club and Toy Box, to permanently lose its licence. “The fact that security barriers are wielded and used like clubs and thrown across a main road is truly shocking.” PC Alan Isherwood said: “It is no exaggeration to say that it was some of the worst disorder linked to a licensed premises that I have seen in my 11 years as a police licensing officer. One man who had been at the club brandished a ‘makeshift club’, and there were threats made to shoot people, according to Greater Manchester Police. READ MORE: Five arrested after Manchester City fan left fighting for his life following attack in Belgium A ‘luxurious’ Manchester nightclub where tables can cost up to £2,000 has been allowed to keep its licence despite hosting the ‘worst disorder’ a police officer has ever seen.Ĭirque Le Soir in Deansgate was temporarily ordered to close by the council’s licensing committee following a mass brawl inside and outside the venue in the early hours of September 19.Ī full review hearing was told that a man was knocked unconscious inside the premises and security staff at the Queen Street club chased clubbers outside using metal barrier poles and ropes as weapons.
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