A landlady is facing getting booted out of her own pub which has been "persistently" coming to the attention of police over alleged fights, thefts and a BB gun faux shooting is having its licence reviewed.
Police and Harrow Council licencing staff have grown fed up of the problems at The Masons Arms, in High Street, Edgware, and have laid out a point-by-point plan of how to get the pub back on track.
Cristina Golescu, the designated premises supervisor, is, according to a document briefing councillors ahead of Monday's Licensing Panel meeting which will decide the fate of the pub, "unable to keep order and control" in the pub, adding: "Therefore she is unsuitable to remain in the role."
The council and police have in the past 18 months been dealing with a raft of complaints and issues in the pub.
PC Jasminder Virdi said in the pre-meeting report: "On 27th October 2013 at 00:15 hours, a customer had been refused entry. Apparently this customer has in the past caused criminal damage in the venue.
"He returned ... and pointed a firearm at the door supervisor and fired it. It appeared to be a BB gun."
In another incident, Mrs Virdi notes that pepper pray was used in one of the many fights documented over the past 18 months, and that customers are either being too intoxicated or unwilling to aid police with investigations.
Responding to the report, the landlady's representatives wrote: "Placing matters in context, throughout this period Ms Golescu has been attempting to work with the authorities in seeking to further the licensing objectives."
The pub has a track-record of issues with authorities.
In 2010, police took a battering ram to it during a raid, and earlier this year, the pub was found to be holding illicit, untaxed alcohol by customs officers.
In the same raid, the then-council leader Susan Hall (Conservative) alleged a 'breach of licence' and a culture of 'exploitation' at the pub after finding above the pub that 13 single room flats were housing 21 people.
