{"id":529237,"date":"2026-07-16T16:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/529237\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T16:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T16:02:21","slug":"bouncers-accused-of-canterbury-pub-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/529237\/","title":{"rendered":"Bouncers accused of Canterbury pub assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two bouncers have been charged in relation to an alleged assault outside a Canterbury hotel.<\/p>\n<p>The men, aged 40 and 45, were issued with a court summons on Sunday in relation to the incident, which happened outside The Famous Grouse Hotel in Lincoln on Wednesday, May 6 this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They were due to appear in the Christchurch District Court on August 20 following a police investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Video shared on social media from the night showed two security staff kicking, pushing and striking an 18-year-old after he had been ejected for bad behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>The footage showed the the accused continued to confront the patron outside the bar in Gerald St.<\/p>\n<p>The Famous Grouse co-owner Shaughn McNabb previously said the hotel had since engaged a new company for security.<\/p>\n<p>In May, McNabb said they would undertake a\u00a0thorough review of what happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Only people aged over 19 were now allowed in on Wednesday nights when Lincoln University students traditionally go there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two bouncers have been charged in relation to an alleged assault outside a Canterbury hotel. The men, aged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-529237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529237","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=529237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}