COUNTY NEWS: Man barred from pub for having epileptic fit

Alan Edmends, 45, from Selden Road, said he was meeting a lady outside The Three Fishes pub in Chapel Road, Worthing, last week when the fit happened.

When he returned on November 9, Mr Edmends claimed he was asked to apologise for ‘causing a disturbance’ and was barred after he refused, despite explaining he had epilepsy.

The former print factory worker said he cried when he got home: “I was pretty low from the seizures anyway, and I did not need it rubbing it my face that I suffer from them. It is a disability. I don’t know why I should be punished for having a disability.”

Eddie Gershon, JD Wetherspoon spokesman, said the manager barred Mr Edmends because he pushed a staff member and would not apologise.

But the father-of-five said he could not remember what happened during his fit and would not say sorry because of the circumstances.

He said the first thing he remembered afterwards was being inside the pub with police officers and a staff member who lent him her jumper to keep him warm.