Rosemount Hotel attack by pub bouncer

INVESTIGATION: Rosemount Hotel bosses have launched an investigation into an alleged assault by a bouncer on a drunken patron.
A PERTH hotel has launched an investigation into a vicious assault on a drunk customer by a bouncer.

The doorman punched the struggling patron at least six times after dragging him by the neck to a dark area of the car park of the Rosemount Hotel in North Perth.

Three other bouncers watched as he threw the customer to the ground and assaulted him.

The incident which happened about 10pm on Thursday was filmed by another customer who asked to be known as Shonquice.

It is understood the man had been asked to leave the hotel after an incident.

``The guy was obviously drunk and had clearly been ejected from the pub,'' Shonquice said.

``He was giving a mouthful to the bouncers and when he put his fists up one of the bouncers didn't take to kindly to it.

``He grabbed him, walked him off, laid into him and then just walked away.

``There were four bouncers. He was no danger to them.

``The bouncers were pretty excessive. I think they feel they can do what they like.

``This was over the top, he wasn't putting up much of a fight.''

Shonquice checked on the victim after the bouncers walked away.

``He seemed OK but was completely out of it,'' he said.

``A couple of minutes later I thought I should go and check on him again and he was gone.

``He was so drunk that when he woke up in the morning he probably wouldn't have had any idea what happened.''

Shonquice was seen by the bouncers filming the incident but they did not approach him.

``I heard the guy who hit him say something like `he's breathing','' he said.

``The guy didn't give a s**t.

`The others were saying things to him like ``you're a bit of an idiot. Look what you've done'.''

Shonquice said that one of the bouncers, not the one involved, had offered to call the customer a taxi.

``He made the offer while the guy was being lippy. He should have accepted it and gone home,'' he said.

A hotel spokeswoman said the bouncer, who works for the Protective Services company, would not be used at the hotel again.

The company's contract with the hotel was also in doubt.

The Rosemount spokeswoman, who discussed the incident with the security company after watching the vision for the first time yesterday, said a report on the incident had been filed by the security staff.

A police spokeswoman said there had been no report or complaint about the incident and St John Ambulance said they were not called to assist any patients in the area.

Protective Services did not return calls from The Sunday Times.