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Hightown Hotel landlord gets his comeuppance.
Geoffrey Miller aged 59, The Hightown Hotel, Alt Road, Hightown was in court for sentencing following being found Guilty after Trial.
The Bench ordered that Mr Miller complete 150 hours unpaid work during a 12 month Community Order is in place.
Costs of �350 to be paid and �75 compensation.
AVOID THIS PUB.
13 Apr 2011 17:38
Hightown landlord found guilty of making threats to intimidate .
A PUB landlord who saw red after being told to keep his dogs under control launched a tirade of threatening abuse, a court heard.
Geoffrey Miller, owner of the Hightown Hotel, squared up to stunned 22-year-old Daniel Trinkett and snarled: �Do you want me to break your ******* jaw?�.
Miller, of Lower Alt Road, Hightown, followed his victim, who had been �nipped� by one of his three boisterous flatcoat retrievers, before grabbing his crotch and shouting: �If I ever see you around here again I will punch your lights out.�
The 59-year-old was found guilty of common assault and using threatening words to intimidate at North Sefton Magistrates� Court.
The court heard how �aggressive� Miller, described as a proud and knowledgeable dog owner, �lit the blue torch paper� when Mr Trinkett asked him to put a lead on his dogs after they jumped at him on Ainsdale Beach.
Mr Trinkett, a former fire service worker, was taking photographs on the sand dunes on December 6.
Giving evidence, he told magistrates: �I said �Keep your dogs on a lead please in the future,� and was about to explain what had happened.
�He said �I don�t care what you think mate�. I started saying �Well, I think you should care,� and was about to tell him that his dog had given me a nip to my hand.
�He said �I don�t care. I don�t give a **** what you think. He turned back and pushed me with both hands, backwards.
�I was speechless. I was a bit in shock that this had happened. I was simply trying to explain what had happened with the dogs.
�Then he came forwards towards me, into my face, and said �Do you want me to break your ******* jaw�.
�He pointed towards a little blue Micra and said �If this car is still here in two minutes then I will smash all the ******* windows.�
Mr Trinkett began to walk away along Harewood Avenue but was followed by Miller and pretended to tie up his shoelaces fearing he was about to be attacked.
The young victim added: �He put his face in my face and said: �Are we doing this or what?�
�I simply said �Look, I don�t want to fight you, all that I was saying was about the dogs.� After I said that he turned away and started walking towards his house and stood in the middle of the road and turned around and grabbed his crotch.�
The trauma did not end there, according the Mr Trinkett. After returning to his Hatfield Road home, Miller drove past in his BMW, smiling, waving and pointing towards to front door.
�I felt terrified that this person knew where I lived,� Mr Trinkett added.
Miller, who had pleaded not guilty, offered a completely different version of events, claiming he had acted in self-defence after Mr Trinkett had kicked one of his dogs �into the air�.
But magistrates dismissed the claims after hearing evidence from a passer-by.
Dog walker Margaret Kilner was walking her King Charles Spaniel when she saw the confrontation at the entrance to the beach.
She described Miller, of previous good character, as �aggressive�. �It was lighting the blue torch-paper,� she added.
Finding Miller guilty, chairman of the bench Bruce McGrath told him: �You yourself admitted that you did push Mr Trinkett and that you did use the words �I�ll break your ******* jaw�.
�We find that these actions were not in self defence and accordingly we find you guilty.�
Sentencing was adjourned to April 12 for the preparation of probation reports.
25 Mar 2011 11:49
Well the manager has been excelling himself recently.
Here's a snippet from the local paper "The Formby Times" dated Feb 9 2011
Geoffrey Miller of the Hightown Hotel, Hightown, has pleaded not guilty to using threatening words or behaviour towards Daniel Trinkett in Southport on December 6, with intent to cause him to believe that immediate violence would be used against him, and to assaulting him on the same date.
The 58 year old was remanded on conditional bail, until his next appearance at North Sefton Magistrates' Court, on March 22nd.
AVOID this pub.
9 Feb 2011 23:11
I thought I'd pay a visit to this pub again as I hadn't been for a while.
Oh dear....
It's a shabby litle pub run by a shabby little manager.
Don't expect to stay warm after 9 o'clock in the evening as the heating goes off, despite the fact it was about -5C outside.
Do yourself a favour and stay away.
30 Nov 2010 21:18
Simply awful.
Bars were very cold (November 2010)
No draught bitter of any description.
Just avoid.
25 Nov 2010 14:44
Price Check April 2010
The Hightown Pint of Carling & Pint of Bitter �5.30
The Railway (Formby) Pint of Carling & Pint of Bitter �4.39
2 Apr 2010 00:17
The absentee manager has now increased prices, no doubt to further feather his nest.
On average it now costs 20p per pint more to drink in this pub than the other pubs in the area.
By the way the toilets are still dirty and smelly.
AVOID at all costs.
21 Mar 2010 18:44
This pub has gone from bad to worse recently.
The manager is never there and the only barman employed is rude to customers .
The beer frequently runs out.
Avoid if at all possible.
My score is 1/10
8 Sep 2009 19:04
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Hightown Hotel, Hightown
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Food Standard Agency rating for the Hightown Hotel is 0 out of 5.
Yes that's right 0 out of 5 !!!
According to the FSA URGENT IMPROVEMENT NECCESSARY
If you don't want to get food poisoning GO somewhere else.
7 Jun 2013 01:16