A FORMER Pinner pub owner will appear at magistrates court next week after he was charged this morning with a New Year's Eve attack outside the bar.

Vijay Behl, of Pinner Hill Road, was arrested on New Year's Day following a brawl outside The Victory in Pinner High Street – which he was running at the time.

It was the second incident in the pub within a space of about a month and since then the bar has been in turmoil.

It has been closed now for almost two months after a search to find a new owner was launched.

Mr Behl, 29, will appear at court on June 11 to face charges of actual bodily harm.