The reason why this pub was demolished by the landlord will shock you!

Landlord who demolished his own pub because he couldn’t get served is let off

The Royal Oak pub in Penclawdd after it was damaged by its owner Mark Swistun (Picture Bedford Media)


A businessman was so furious after he was refused a drink after 11pm that he demolished it with a JCB – despite the fact he owns the place.

Bizarrely, police have now said he will not be charged, as he owns the premises and, as a police source says, ‘can do what he likes with it’.

Mark Swistun, 45, used the 28-ton digger to wreck the seaside boozer in the middle of the night.

He was arrested on suspicion of causing criminal damage to the Royal Oak pub in the Welsh fishing village of Penclawdd, Gower.

But police said they were powerless to charge him because he jointly owns the pub.

A police source said: ‘At the end of the day the building belongs to him so he can do what he likes with it.

Police said it was his pub so he could do what he wanted with it (Picture: WNS)

‘We would have needed someone to make an official complaint about the damage he caused.

‘No one came forward to do that.’

Wealthy shellfish factory owner Swistun invested £60,000 into the pub along with his business partner Colin McDonald, 59, just a year earlier.

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