A PUB in North Harrow has been forced to cut down its trading hours following a licensing hearing into a string of violent assaults.

JD’s Lounge, in Pinner Road, was shut by Harrow Council last month following an emergency meeting until a full hearing held last Thursday.

An issue was highlighted at the meeting that all violence occurred after midnight.

The pub will have to cut its hours from 2.30am at the weekend to 12.30am and be shut by midnight on weekdays.

It will also not be able to open for extended hours including bank holidays and Christmas.

A report by Harrow Police on the venue said that the assaults, recorded since November 2009, included a fight where a person was hit over the head with a stool and on one occasion when a doorman lost a tooth after being elbowed in the mouth trying to break up a fight.

In June last year, Harrow Council caught CCTV footage of a fight where a man with a knife is knocked to the floor and kicked and punched repeatedly.

On March 5, police were called to the venue at around 1am after reports of fighting outside the pub.

As police were leaving the scene they received a call from a member of the public who said he had been hit over the head with a bottle and was at a nearby kebab shop.

Police found the man in the kebab shop with a gash near his eye and three smaller cuts on his forehead and around the nose and another person with a laceration to his left thumb.

A third person was lying on two chairs having been kicked in both kneecaps causing them to lock. A fourth victim was standing in the shop doorway holding a tissue on the side of his head, which concealed a cut.

All four had been drinking at the pub when a fight broke out and on attempting to leave were attacked by up to 15 to 20 other customers.

The men were taken to Northwick Park Hospital for their injuries to be treated. Sergeant Carl Davis, from Harrow Police, said: "We are very pleased with the result and believe that we have done the right thing for local residents and the local community."

The Harrow Times is waiting on a comment from JD's Lounge.