EXCLUSIVE

by Danny Boyle

A Bluewater bar and restaurant is being probed after staff allegedly sold alcohol to a 16-year-old girl who blacked out and ended up on a hospital drip.

Another complaint claims a man in his 50s was so drunk he had not moved from where he slumped - and left his false teeth at the bar.

TGI Friday’s staff are said to have failed to ask the youth for ID and served so much alcohol to the other drinker that he was left unconscious.

The American-themed venue, in South Village, is to have its premises licence reviewed by borough councillors after a request from North Kent Police.

Officers found the girl slumped on a bench and vomiting after drinking three bottles of rose wine on the evening of November 12 last year.

A month earlier, on October 11, police smelled alcohol “several feet away” when the middle-aged man was found unconscious in a foetal position at the Greenhithe shopping centre.

North Kent Police is recommending TGI’s checks the ID of all customers who appear to be aged under 25 before selling alcohol as well as better training for staff.

The application is due to go before Dartford council’s licensing sub-committee on Wednesday, February 17.

TGI’s declined to comment.