Gun-wielding pub landlord said 'I'll shoot you all' during inspection by brewery
A LANDLORD pulled out a gun and told people in his pub he would "shoot them all" during an inspection by the brewery.
Stuart Thacker was subjected to an inspection at the Angel Pub, in Butcher Row, Beverley, after his area manager became concerned about how it was being run.
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'OUTRAGEOUS BEHAVIOUR': Landlord Stuart Thacker threatened to shoot brewery inspectors at the Angel pub in Beverley, left. He was given a six-month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months.
He picked up an air rifle from behind the bar and told the brewery employees and shocked customers he would shoot if they touched his property.
Thacker, 49, was arrested by police and claimed he thought he was about to lose his livelihood.
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The Honorary Recorder of Hull and the East Riding Judge Michael Mettyear, described it as "disgraceful and outrageous" conduct.
Prosecutor Michelle Stuart- Lofthouse told Hull Crown Court: "The area manager had seen some discrepancies.
"On their arrival the defendant became very agitated. He didn't want it to be done."
Thacker told the men: "You are not doing it. Over my dead body."
He became aggressive and pulled paperwork off the walls and grabbed the rifle from behind the bar.
While holding the air rifle, Thacker told the men, in front of his customers: "You touch anything and I will shoot you all."
When he was arrested, Thacker claimed he had picked up the rifle to take it upstairs.
When officers searched his home they found a fake driving licence in another man's name.
Thacker had applied for it after being disqualified last year for dangerous driving.
Thacker, of Wingfield Road, east Hull, pleaded guilty to affray and possessing a false identity document.
His barrister John Thackray said: "He was effectively about to be told his time was up as landlord of a pub he had put his life and soul in to.
"He worked long hours for very little profit or income and was about to lose it all."
Thacker was given a six- month prison sentence, suspended for 18 months, and ordered to carry out 240 hours of unpaid work in the community.
He was banned from driving for six months.
Judge Mettyear told him: "This was a disgraceful episode. You have previous convictions and were perhaps lucky to be in a position of being trusted as a landlord.
"It must have been frightening for people there. There were a number of customers besides these men.
"There was really no justification. You accept now that things were going wrong and you didn't want them to know how bad things were and you acted in this outrageous way.
"If there was any injury caused, or use of the weapon, a substantial custodial sentence would be inevitable."
Comments
by GCtheDJ
Monday, June 25 2012, 5:25PM
“Gulp! You would have done if you'd have been in the pub at the time!”
by ullmyarse
Sunday, June 24 2012, 1:26PM
“I dont personally know the guy, but he looks like a very respectful citizen to me. Maybe he was framed.”
by LordChez
Sunday, June 24 2012, 11:17AM
“I seem to recall a similar incident with a previous landlord and a firearm in the Angel, maybe 40 years ago, can anyone enlighten me?”
by redlull
Sunday, June 24 2012, 8:53AM
“I knew Stu Thacker many years ago, was a complete loser then, looks like nothing has changed. Everything he touches turns to s**t. Never seems to do anything by the book. He is a bit of a nutter, but not in a mentally ill kind of way. He probably did hold the wheelie record once, certainly in the Greatfield/Sutton Trust Estate Book of Records, he was a bit of a local legend in his time, especially for his daring driving feats. Not sure if he has ever had a real job, just seems to go from one failed business venture to the next. Entertaining if nothing else!”
by TheEmperor
Saturday, June 23 2012, 9:48PM
“"he thought he was about to lose his livelihood"
I guess he thought right.”
by Mark_Hull_65
Saturday, June 23 2012, 12:48AM
“"Have the long hours for limited reward, mainly powered by brewery greed, frightened all the decent people off?"
Probably.
It's one of those things in life where the customer thinks 'Hey! That looks easy. I could do that'.
Think of all of the good things about being a pub landlord. Get out of bed late, free booze, stay up drinking as long as you like, house upstairs... What could possibly go wrong?
I'm sure a lot of us have come across people in our working lives who think the professionals are just ripping them off and they could do the job just as well themselves. They're not usually quite so cocky when they have to get the same professionals in to sort out the mess they've made.”
by Just_Bev
Friday, June 22 2012, 11:31PM
“"About time the breweries got their public houses in order and who they let run them"
Twerps who have no idea!”
by beverleybard
Friday, June 22 2012, 11:06PM
“Being a pub landlord used to be regarded as a position of some respectability but now the calibre of person entering the trade seems to have sunk to an all-time low. Have the long hours for limited reward, mainly powered by brewery greed, frightened all the decent people off?”
by thedanone
Friday, June 22 2012, 9:03PM
“He used to run the Endyke a few years back, ran the pub into the ground!
He drove his motorbike throught the pub most nights and would park it under the dart board, got ****ed every night and alienated his staff!
Then would go drink in cavalier, lord nelson and cross keys where he would **** off all the locals in them places!
He also bragged that he once held a world record for the longest wheellie on a motorbike, complete dick.”
by opevigilante
Friday, June 22 2012, 8:52PM
“if this would have been a young adult in there early 20's just say, with no job then he would be slammed in jail for threatening people with a fiream for a few good years stinks the justice system”