Bar where illegal workers found stripped of licence

A chicken bar where two illegal workers were found after a raid by immigration officials has been stripped of its licence to sell alcohol.

The man and woman ran out of the back of Chicken N Beer in Stanfield Road, Bournemouth, when officials spotted them in February.

HM Immigration Enforcement said the man entered the UK illegally on a small boat in 2022 and that neither of them had ever been allowed to work in the country.

BCP Council's licensing sub-committee removed the licence after a hearing on 20 May following an application by Dorset Police.

The council said it was appropriate to take the licence away because Chicken N Beer showed there was "no alternative outcome that will mitigate the concerns raised by Dorset Police and Home Office Immigration Enforcement".

The man found at Chicken N Beer said he had worked at the bar for "nearly a month" and had provided no official documentation to prove he had a right to work.

The woman entered the UK on a student visa in 2023 but her student leave expired in May 2024.

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