{"id":19165,"date":"2024-11-27T10:25:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T10:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=19165"},"modified":"2024-11-27T10:25:31","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T10:25:31","slug":"groucho-club-closes-over-serious-crime-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=19165","title":{"rendered":"Groucho Club closes over &#039;serious crime&#039; claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">One of London&#8217;s most famous private members&#8217; clubs, The Groucho Club, has shut following claims a &#8220;serious crime&#8221; had taken place at the premises.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Westminster City Council said it had suspended the Soho venue\u2019s licence after a request from the Metropolitan Police.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The private members club is understood to have co-operated with the council\u2019s licensing sub-committee, acknowledged the seriousness of the allegations and accepted the decision.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A full hearing about the licence will be held within 28 days of when police submitted the review application.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A council spokesperson said: &#8220;This decision follows reports that a serious crime may have taken place at the premises in circumstances linked to a breach in the premises licencing conditions.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">&#8220;The allegations are subject to an ongoing police investigation and we cannot comment further at this stage.&#8221;<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The Met said its investigation was still taking place, meaning the amount of detail it could provide was limited.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">It added further details would be released &#8220;when possible&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The Groucho Club has been approached for comment.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border-top: 2px solid #ccc; margin-top: 20px;\">\n<p><em>Source: <\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cwy9rvpl4rpo\">www.bbc.com\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of London&#8217;s most famous private members&#8217; clubs, The Groucho Club, has shut following claims a &#8220;serious crime&#8221; had taken place at the premises. Westminster City Council said it had suspended the Soho venue\u2019s licence after a request from the Metropolitan Police. The private members club is understood to have co-operated with the council\u2019s licensing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}