Leamington club where teen died was "dangerously oversold" and "refusing to give out tap water"

Gina Alexander

Following the report that a 19-year-old man had died after taking a Red Bull ecstasy pill in Leamington at a club night where a 22-year-old woman was also taken ill and hospitalised in intensive care, new information has been investigated by Pill Report revealing the dangerous conditions inside the venue and its handling the DnB Allstars event.

Pill Report has released its findings on Instagram, revealing that after it posted a pill warning the page was inundated with reports the venue's dangerous mismanagement the event, which took place on January 31.

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1/2 - Yep, that’s right. Listen to this mazza. On Friday night a teenager tragically lost his life and a young lady is in intensive care after attending an event at @assemblyleamington. - After putting out a warning regarding the strength the suspected pill involved we were inundated with messages regarding the mis-management the venue that night. The information we have received from numerous attendees including friends the deceased is beyond belief. This is a case Gross Negligence on the venues behalf, which we believe was a contributing factor in the tragic course events. - (Swipe Right) *update* we have over 50 reports now. - The venue recently re-opened in August under new management after a shock closure due to supposed financial difficulties in paying rent and business rates. The management later put out a statement eluding to their policy regarding the wellbeing customers, however the information we have received suggests otherwise and as a community we are frankly disgusted by it. - Allegations involve. - 1) Bottles water being sold at £5 each which ran out towards the end the night. - 2) Dangerously oversold event, resulting in overcrowding and dangerously high temperatures which felt like ‘you would pass out if you stayed in there too long’.(quote from attendee) - 3) Huge queues to get fresh air in the smoking area which wasn’t relative in size to the number attendees. - 4) One jug water at the end the bar for 1000+ attendees which was ‘barely being refilled throughout the night’. - 5) Staff refusing to give out tap water only handing out small plastic cups for people to go to the toilets and fill up using the taps, which mysteriously stopped working during the night. - 6) Staff claiming that people wanting water were on drugs, in spite the venues policy regarding the welfare attendees, and with reports management telling bar staff f for giving free water out. - 7) Numerous people collapsing, without aid the unhelpful bouncers.

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One the recurring problems that people reported was that bottles water were being sold for £5 each and had sold out before the end the night. Water from the tap was also not available for free during the latter stages the evening, with Pill Report also releasing footage a bar staff member responding dismissively to an attendee telling them not giving out water is illegal and endangering the people inside the venue.

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Pill Report Investigation: The video we have obtained above sums up the venues actions on the night. The bartender was forced to act in this way by management. We have now concluded over 40 hours investigative work into the event: cross referencing over 60 accounts from attendees, friends the deceased, staff and promotors who have used or been involved with the venue previously - some these accounts were so disturbing we have chosen not to publish them. This behaviour is not new from the venue which routinely denies tap water which is a legal requirement and capitalises on drum and bass events by increasing water prices. The fire alarms went f during the event, which when questioned staff claimed was “because the heat”, our investigations revealed for heat alarms to go f, the temperature has to reach levels above 57 degrees celsius - levels that ten lead to mass bodily dehydration. Furthermore, Tap water was not adequately provided, with the intention driving up £5 bottled water sales which sold out at around 2am. As a combination gross negligence on the venues behalf and the factors above, the conditions created were subsequently deadly and which we believe contributed to the tragic loss a young persons. We would like to stress the role the promotor and that the venue are very different, the promotor provides the music and acts. It is the responsibility the venue to provide a duty care to the customer and ensure the venue does not exceed capacity by monitoring entry levels at the door. The information we obtained is now in the hands the press and we hope there will be an inquiry into the venues actions. We cannot let behaviour like this slide.

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Reports state that the staff in the venue were refusing to give people water after being "told f" by management. It is also stated they refused because they thought that the attendees asking for water were on drugs, which is against the venues welfare policy.

At one point there was reportedly only one jug water available for 1000+ attendees that according to one report was "barely being refilled throughout the night". Because this, attendees had to go to the toilet and fill up small cups water with the taps in there.

The venue is also said to have been "dangerously oversold" with "dangerously high temperatures". Numerous people were reported to have collapsed in the venue because the sweltering heat, "without aid the unhelpful bouncers". One attendee said that "you would pass out if you stayed in there too long".

Queues to the smoking area were also said to be extremely big, so it was hard for people to get fresh air.

A Warwick District Council spokesperson has stated its licensing team "are aware the issues that occurred over the weekend at The Assembly and are working with the police to establish all the facts".

Warwickshire Polce are investigating the incident, stating that: "Enquiries are ongoing and we continue to work with all our partners to investigate the full circumstances the incident. We will not be commenting further whilst the investigation is ongoing.’

Louis Chant is a freelance writer, follow him on Twitter

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