{"id":528331,"date":"2026-07-16T03:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T03:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/528331\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T03:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T03:18:09","slug":"canterbury-pub-bouncers-charged-over-alleged-attack-on-18-year-old-patron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/528331\/","title":{"rendered":"Canterbury pub bouncers charged over alleged attack on 18-year-old patron"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, police said two men, aged 40 and 45, have been summonsed to appear in the Christchurch District Court next month. <\/p>\n

The Herald understands both men are bouncers. <\/p>\n

Pub co-owner Shaughn McNab told the Herald: \u201cWe are undertaking a thorough review of what occurred with our independent security firm\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe unfortunately cannot discuss this until the investigation is complete.\u201d<\/p>\n

The source earlier said the punter involved was 18 and had \u201caccidentally dropp[ed] a glass at the bar\u201d, and security came up to \u201cgrab him and drag him out\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeveral witnesses were present, and there is clear video evidence of the incident showing the actions that took place.<\/p>\n

\u201cA number of people who witnessed the incident are extremely concerned about the conduct displayed and believe the matter deserves public attention and investigation.\u201c<\/p>\n

The pub is frequented by locals and students at nearby Lincoln University.<\/p>\n

Anna Leask is a senior journalist who covers national crime and justice. She joined the Herald in 2008 and has worked as a journalist for 20 years with a particular focus on family and gender-based violence, child abuse, sexual violence, homicides, mental health and youth crime. She writes, hosts and produces the award-winning podcast, A Moment In Crime, released monthly on nzherald.co.nz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today, police said two men, aged 40 and 45, have been summonsed to appear in the Christchurch District…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[56796,1554,17704,89,1558,215395,8126,13239,305,111,43,139,69,90,1523,128115,40123,38988,5163],"class_list":["post-528331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-18yearold","tag-alleged","tag-assault","tag-attack","tag-been","tag-bouncers","tag-canterbury","tag-charged","tag-have","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-over","tag-patron","tag-pub","tag-relation","tag-teen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}