Club under threat after 3 stabbings

YORKSHIRE Street night club Brownz could be shut down under emergency powers used by police for the first time in Oldham following a triple stabbing.

The club is to have its licence reviewed today after the mass brawl outside the premises in the early hours of Friday which left a man critically ill.

The review — under the Licensing Act 2003 — triggers an immediate hearing of the council’s licensing panel.

The panel has powers to impose additional conditions on the licence or suspend it pending a full review within 28 days.

The owner decided to close the bar at the weekend after a fight outside the premises on Yorkshire Street — once dubbed the Wild West — at 2.45am on Fiday.

Three men in their 20s, all from Oldham, were taken to the Royal Oldham Hospital with stabs wounds. One was slashed in the face and the second suffered a cut lip, and both have been discharged.

The third was stabbed in the back and was transferred to Wythenshawe Hospital for surgery.

A 26-year-old has been arrested and bailed on suspicion of assaulting a police officer.

Yorkshire Street remained closed between Horsedge Street and Mumps until Friday afternoon while investigations were carried out.

Busy

Det Insp Chris Bridge of Oldham CID said: “Inquiries are at an early stage and we are still trying to establish how this fight began.

“Yorkshire Street was busy with people out enjoying the night and I would urge anyone who saw anything to contact me.”

People with information should call Oldham CID on 0161-856 8951 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800- 555111.