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Landlord's anger after pub attack

sludge | 30.06.2004 17:55 | Cambridge

Landlord's anger after pub attack

On the days leading up to the England/Portugal game BBC east made visits to a "pub frequented by the ever increasing Portuguese community in East Anglia" and kept asking questions like "what do you think will happen if Portugal win"
Surprise , surprise , that night the pub was attacked,

Landlord's anger after pub attack

Publican Sergio Quieros said nobody came to help

The landlord of a pub smashed up by fans after England's Euro 2004 defeat has criticised policing on the night.

Customers were barricaded in for two hours as bottles, stones and bricks were hurled at the Red Lion pub in Thetford, Norfolk.

Publican Sergio Quieros said: "The police did nothing. Nobody came to help us. How could this happen?"

Norfolk Police said all those arrested after the trouble, 12 men and three women, had been released on bail.



"They knew that this would happen and they didn't come to prevent it," said Mr Quieros whose pub is almost a community centre for the town's growing Portuguese community of migrant workers.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/3842213.stm
They seemed astounded when some of the locals blamed them (BBC east ) for it
The usual BBC East leads with headlines "travellers cause trouble/evictited.
When the Tony martin fiasco was on there was , after Tony Martin conviction, nightly references to "Farmer Tony Martin" and "Burglar Fred Barras" , why? both had criminal records

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