Nightclub guilty of selling vodka which “could blind”

The owners of a UK nightclub stocking poisonous vodka that had the potential to blind party-goers has been fined £6,000.

The owner of The Kaff nightclub in Wigan pleaded guilty to stocking alcohol unfit for consumption

The Kaff, in Wigan, was found to have bought vodka deemed “unfit for human consumption” when the liquid tested positive for denatured alcohol.

Council officers were first alerted to the illegal substance when patrons complained of receiving watered down vodka.

David Collict, director of Archbrook Limited, the company that owns the venue, pleaded guilty to the charge at Wigan and Leigh Magistrates’ Court last week.

As reported in The St Helen’s Reporter, officers who investigated the initial complaints found unsealed but full bottles of alcohol at the venue, which a bar worker said had been opened to “save time”.

Some of the tested bottles were found to be “not genuine branded vodka, but not dangerous”, while two unsealed bottles were found to be “not genuine, dangerous and unfit for consumption”.

Collict’s defence said that there had not been a “concerted effort” by the club to sell fake or dangerous spirits and that the liquid had been bought by “legitimate means”.