Aberdeen restaurant boss in drunken brawl
Celebration ended in punch-up
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AN ABERDEEN restaurant boss and four other men have admitted being involved in a drink-fuelled brawl.
Khalis Miah, 32, co-owner of award-winning Cinnamon restaurant, admitted his part in the incident in Dee Street along with Majid Ali, 30, Surinder Ram, 41, Mohammed Miah, 28, and Kujal Miah, 29.
Aberdeen Sheriff Court heard the men had been celebrating the anniversary of the opening of Cinnamon restaurant, in Union Street, Aberdeen.
The men, with the exception of Kujal Miah, admitted assaulting Akinfolusho Olatunde George.
Mr George was working as a bouncer at the Pearl Lounge nightclub, where the incident happened last year.
Kujal Miah admitted resisting police officers, struggling violently with them and lashing out.
He also admitted behaving in a racially-aggravated manner intended to cause alarm to Pc Graeme McEwan, by shouting, swearing and uttering racist remarks.
Mohammed Miah admitted assaulting Pc Jackson Ike by punching him on the head.
The court heard Khalis Miah feared he could lose his licence following the offence.
Sheriff Malcolm Garden deferred sentence on the five.
He said: “This was an ill-advised, drink-fuelled exercise. At times you appear to have acted like a mob.”
Ali, whose address was given in court papers as 30 Albyn Grove, Aberdeen; Kujal Miah, whose address was given as 267 Union Grove, Aberdeen; Khalis Miah, whose address was listed as 4 Springbank Terrace, Aberdeen; Ram, whose address was listed as 8b Bon Accord Terrace, Aberdeen, and Mohammed Miah, whose address was given as Cinnamon Restaurant, Union Street, Aberdeen, are to return to court in June.
