Sudden closure of city gun pub

A pub at the centre of a shooting which left a Wolverhampton father dead has shut suddenly.

Mystery surrounds the closure of The Bagot Arms, in Newhampton Road West, Whitmore Reans, which hit the headlines when it became the scene of the fatal shooting of 26-year-old bystander Luke Harris.

At the time, police asked council bosses to review its licence over fears it was a hazard.

But it was saved from closure in June last year following a three-hour licensing meeting which heard its owners wanted to transform it into a family-friendly pub with a restaurant.

Blackboards have now gone up telling customers it is "closed until further notice". St Peter's ward councillor Roger Lawrence said: "There are neighbours who will be pleased the pub has closed."

Leighton Cohen, 21, of Mostyn Street, Whitmore Reans, who killed Mr Harris, from All Saints, after a row was jailed for at least 23 years in January.