{"id":179248,"date":"2025-10-04T18:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T18:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/179248\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T18:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T18:38:10","slug":"man-dies-after-attack-at-birmingham-nightclub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/179248\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after \u2018attack\u2019 at Birmingham nightclub"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two men have been charged in connection with the incident in Lower Tower Street\"GoogleLower Tower Street, Hockley, Birmingham(Image: Google )<\/p>\n

A man has died following an alleged \u2018attack\u2019 at a Birmingham<\/a> nightclub.<\/p>\n

The incident, described by police as a \u2018serious assault\u2019, took place at the Sebene Bar in Lower Tower Street in Hockley<\/a> on Friday, September 26.<\/p>\n

A 33-year-old man suffered \u2018serious injuries\u2019 at the venue shortly before 12.30pm.<\/p>\n

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The man died three days later on Monday evening (September 29).<\/p>\n

Now two men have been charged with grievous bodily harm with intent.<\/p>\n

Simon Gerbrengus, aged 43, from Anderson Road in Erdington<\/a>, and Bibi Gilzgi, aged 30, of no fixed address, both appeared at Birmingham Magistrates\u2019 Court on Monday (September 29) morning before the victim had died.<\/p>\n

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They have both been remanded in custody to next appear at Birmingham Crown Court on Monday, October 27, where the charges could be revised.<\/p>\n

A further 29-year-old man has also been arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice.<\/p>\n

Sebene is listed as a \u2018premier dance club\u2019, with its name inspired by \u2018the lively and energetic African dance style\u2019, on its website<\/p>\n

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West Midlands Police<\/a> raised licensing concerns with Birmingham City Council<\/a> following the \u2018serious assault\u2019 at the premises.<\/p>\n

Police said: \u201cThe premises were in breach of their premises licence at the time of the assault.<\/p>\n

And the council\u2019s licensing sub-committee C held a summary review on Friday (October 3).<\/p>\n

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The committee decided to suspend the venue\u2019s licence, held by Sebene Limited, and to remove Mr Desbele Welday as the designated premises supervisor, pending a full review which will take place within 28 days.<\/p>\n

It said: \u201cThe sub-committee determined that the cause of the serious crime originated from a style of management which had been incapable of upholding the licensing objectives.<\/p>\n

\u201cParticularly the prevention of crime and disorder, such that there was a very high risk that further serious crime could arise at the premises pending the full summary review hearing in 28 days\u2019 time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of note, no one from the club attended the meeting but the committee was told the \u2018licence had been surrendered\u2019.<\/p>\n

The police said it had \u2018had little confidence in those at the premises to operate safely or responsibly\u2019.<\/p>\n

And \u2018the incident would not have happened if the licence holder company had been operating responsibly, and in accordance with its licence\u2019.<\/p>\n

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In its interim steps decision the licensing sub-committee said: \u201cThe sub-committee determined that the causes of the serious crime appeared to originate from the management failings at the premises.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe sub-committee was not confident that the premises was being operated to a satisfactory standard, and was not prepared to take any risks whatsoever regarding the potential for further serious crime.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was abundantly clear that the operation was not being run in accordance with the crime prevention objective.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men have been charged in connection with the incident in Lower Tower StreetLower Tower Street, Hockley, Birmingham(Image:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2774,924,59,57,58,79575,50,56,54,55,2152],"class_list":["post-179248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-birmingham-city-council","tag-crime","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-hockley","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-west-midlands-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}