Peter and Ann McGirr were slammed in a Facebook post which falsely claimed they hadn’t paid their bill
A family has been awarded a hefty settlement after being accused in a social media post of skipping out on paying a $200 bill.
Peter and Ann McGirr, along with their children Peter Jr. and Carol, were blasted all over social media – for a crime they didn’t commit.
Managers at the Horse & Jockey pub in Derbyshire, UK, accused the wealthy Irish family of ‘shocking behaviour’, stating that they ‘dined and dashed’ in a now-deleted Facebook post, which included CCTV footage of the four, reports Daily Mail.
The post claimed they had left the bar without paying for their meals and drinks, including ribeye steaks, gammon steaks and real ales and lagers, amounting to $200.
Local news outlets picked up on the story when the footage went viral, however, the family who reportedly run a successful engineering firm, and are known to be one of the richest families in their local area, maintained their innocence and took the restaurant to Belfast Crown Court earlier this month.
The pub uploaded CCTV footage of the family in its ‘defamatory’ post (Facebook/The Horse and Jockey)
The court heard how the family did in fact settle the tab, as it later transpired that a member of staff had failed to put the transaction through the till.
The family sued the pub for libel, stating they suffered significant embarrassment and reputational damage from the ‘serious and defamatory accusations.’
Peter Girvan, the barrister representing the family, said of news reports about the pub’s claims: “These articles contained serious and defamatory accusations that the plaintiffs had engaged in dishonest and criminal conduct by deliberately absconding without settling a bill of approximately £150 ($200).
“The allegations were entirely false. The plaintiffs had not engaged in any such conduct, and the statements made by the defendants had no factual basis.”
The pub agreed to pay out £75,000 (approximately $99,500) in damages to the McGirrs, as well as their legal costs, as part of the settlement.
Management also apologized for the apparent blunder and accepted there was ‘no basis whatsoever’ for what transpired.
The McGirrs’ attorney Darragh Carney celebrated the news, saying they had been ‘vindicated’ and ‘very satisfied with the settlement’ as compensation.
The pub in the Peak District, UK (Google/The Horse and Jockey)
The result comes as the pub last year recognized its slip and publicly apologized for its error, claiming an ‘inexperienced member of staff’ had made an ‘honest mistake.’
It is believed the employee had taken a card payment but had not printed the bill through the till.
The statement made by the Horse & Jockey’s landlord Sam Watson read: “We want to sincerely apologise to the people involved because we have now learnt that they did in fact pay for their meal.
“There was no dishonesty involved from our staff, it was an honest mistake but we have dismissed the member of staff responsible for the error.”
Watson reportedly even flew out to Ireland to offer the family a free meal, but they turned it down in a bid to pursue the lawsuit.
The McGirrs are also happy with the outcome, with Carol taking to her own Facebook to share the news.
She wrote: “10 months later.. thank god it’s all over and our names are cleared.
“Tip for all our friends and family: don’t pay for your food and drink before you eat as this is what can happen.. plus use a card otherwise we had [sic] no evidence of payment.”
LADbible Group has contacted The Horse and Jockey for comment.Featured Image Credit: Facebook/The Horse And Jockey
Topics: UK News, Food and Drink, Crime, Court
Published 12:26 17 Aug 2024 GMT+1
Major update in death of girl, 13, who died after drinking one sip of hot chocolate
Hannah Jacobs, who had several severe alergies, sadly died in February 2023
An inquest into Hannah Jacobs’ death has found ‘failures’ in the run up to the 13-year-old’s passing.
Hannah sadly died in February 2023 after her mother ordered her a hot chocolate at a Costa Coffee shop in Barking, London.
Since she was a child, Hannah had severe food allergies to fish, eggs, and dairy, and upon ordering their drinks, her mother Abimbola Duyile says that she asked for two soya hot chocolates and requested that they thoroughly clean the equipment.
Inquest into Hannah Jacobs’ death concludes
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However, it seems as if Hannah was given normal cow’s milk instead, sparking the 13-year-old schoolgirl to have an allergic reaction.
Neither Hannah or her mom had an EpiPen at the time and rushed to a nearby pharmacy for help.
The teenager collapsed in the chemist and they called for an ambulance. Tragically, Hannah died in hospital later that day.
Over a year on from the traumatic experience, an inquest into Hannah’s deaths has been conducted. It came to an end yesterday, on August 16.
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Hannah Jacobs died last year at the age of 13. (Family Handout)
The inquest concluded that Hannah had died after a ‘failure to follow the processes in place to discuss allergies’, and a ‘failure of communication’ between the coffee shop staff and Hannah’s mother.
Assistant coroner Dr Shirley Radcliffe said: “The root cause of this death is a failure to follow the processes in place to discuss allergies combined with a failure of communication between the mother and the barista.”
As well as this, it was said that the barista who served the pair failed to show the mom an allergy booklet that Costa Coffee staff are required to present to customers in instances like this.
A member of Hannah’s mom’s legal team went on to read a statement outside the court.
“Having heard all the evidence over the last week, it is clear to me that although the food service industry and medical professionals are required to have allergy training, the training is really not taken seriously enough,” they said.
Hannah’s mom Abimbola Duyile seen with her legal team after the inquest concluded. (Sky News)
“Better awareness is really needed in these industries and across society of the symptoms of anaphylaxis.”
Reportedly, one of the baristas who worked at the Barking branch had failed their allergy training test 20 times, something Abimbola’s legal team labeled ‘not acceptable’.
Faton Abrashi, a regional operations manager for Costa Coffee stores in London whose responsibilities include allergy procedures for staff, told the inquest on Thursday that Costa baristas were only permitted to serve customers who had said they had an allergy when ordering, if they had completed specific allergy safety training.
LADbible Group has previously approached Costa Coffee for comment.Featured Image Credit: Family Handout
Topics: Health, News, Food and Drink, UK News, Court, London
Published 09:09 16 May 2025 GMT+1
How man whose family eat raw liver and testicles met his ‘soulmate’ Liver Queen
It seems like a match made in heaven
The man whose entire family gorges on raw offal has explained how he managed to meet his ‘soulmate’.
If you haven’t heard of Brian Johnson, you’ll probably recognize him as the infamous ‘Liver King,’ a half-naked fitness influencer from Texas who shot to viral fame for his extremely unusual way of life.
Earlier this week, Untold: The Liver King dropped on Netflix, where we’ve gained a somewhat disturbing glimpse into Brian and his family’s primitive way of living.
Describing himself as the ‘CEO of the ancestral lifestyle,’ the 70-minute documentary conveys the rise (and demise) of The Liver King as it showcases old clips of him preaching his ‘Nine Ancestral Tenets’ to his then rapidly-growing flock of disciples – up until the ‘steroids scandal’ exposed him as a liar.
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Anyway, Brian and his family say they still follow the rules, which include sleeping on the floor, walking around barefoot, plunging in cold water, and eating a strict diet of fertilized eggs and bovine organs, raw, all because Brian alleged the carnivore diet – and liver in particular – helped cure his sickly sons, Rad Ical and Stryker.
Who are the Liver King and Queen?
However, it wasn’t just Brian who apparently delights in the raw-meat diet, as exhibited in one scene viewers called ‘stomach churningly gross’ as the family-of-four gunned down a bull and promptly feasted from its insides right there and then.
Brian ate nothing but raw meat for 15 years (Netflix)
His wife, Bozena ‘Barbara’, who has the title The Liver Queen, was also seen chowing down on beef testicles, which she said she eats three times a day, topped with hot sauce, in the doc, while making several of her own rather outlandish claims, like painkillers being bad for you.
She’s stuck by Brian through thick and thin for the past two decades, and it certainly seems like a match made in heaven which has everyone wondering, how on Earth did these two meet?
How did the Liver King meet the Liver Queen?
Before the pair met, Brian and Barbara, formerly a dentist, seemingly had pretty normal lives and just so happened to meet by chance while on a snowboarding trip in 2004, GQ reports.
Brian said it was love at first sight, later telling The Iced Coffee Hour podcast in 2022: “I’d never been in a real serious relationship in my life. Then I met Liver Queen. I knew the minute I met her that she was my soul mate.”
He added: “I mean as soon as we got into the chairlift and I saw her face and I looked into her eyes, I could feel I knew this. So, we got engaged in like six or seven weeks. We got married a couple of months after that. That was 18 years ago.”
Barbara has been an advocate of the lifestyle and stuck by Brian throughout it all (Instagram/theliverqueen)
However, Barbara apparently took a little persuading to his advances, saying how she ‘didn’t give [him] the time of day’ and tried to keep on snowboarding.
“Then I caught her in the lift line,” Brian continued.” I said, ‘I know this mountain. Let me show you around.'”
They went on to marry within six months of that meeting in Nevis, West Indies.
Who are the Liver King and Queen’s children?
Stryker came along a little over a year after the pair tied the knot, followed by now 16-year-old Rad Ical.
In 2023, Barbara shared some insight into her son’s various activities, revealing the boys are homeschooled but taught an array of skills, like self-defense as well as art.
The fitness influencer was exposed in a scandal in 2022 (Netflix)
She penned: “As a mother of two teenage boys, watching @strykerthebarbarian & @liverboyrad grow and learn new skills is one of the most rewarding parts of my daily routine… From self-defense to art classes, academics to farm work…we definitely go the extra mile to ensure that our boys are competent and well-rounded as they blossom into adulthood.”
Unsurprisingly, both have taken to the lifestyle pretty well too, with the pair filming themselves eating raw eggs while shunning Oreos and likewise sleeping on the floor, which they say is something to do with ‘radiation’ like Chernobyl.
How did The Liver King and the Liver Queen start eating raw meat?
Apparently, the kids struggled with allergies, being in and out of hospital for anaphylactic shock, which is what started the Johnson to reassess their diet.
“My kids are dying,” Brian recalled in the Netflix show. “And there’s no solution to the problem. We kept going to doctors. Almost everything they told us to do, okay, we did it. Well, nothing just worked.”
Desperate for answers, Brian said that’s when he read up about Mark Sisson’s ancestral way of living which resonated with him so much that Barbara cleared out the pantry and the family kick-started their diet of bone broth, liver, raw eggs and meat straight away… And the rest is history.
“The ancestral lifestyle worked,” Brian added. “That’ll make you believe in something.”
They met in 2004 – and were engaged weeks later (Instagram/liverking)
What has the Liver Queen said about their lifestyle?
Barbara is a keen advocate for both her husband and their rather bizarre lifestyle, agreeing that the change in diet changed ‘everything’ for her kids’ health – and her own.
She claimed she delights in eating raw testicles for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day, stating that the beef balls keep her hormones ‘healthy and balanced.’
In another arguably concerning clip – shortly after the bull incident – Brian and Barbara shared a giggle about the fact CPS (child protection services) were called on them for their lifestyle.
However, Brian shrugged it off, claiming ‘real child abuse’ is going to Chick-Fil-A or giving them candy.
“The most brutal possible f***ing thing I think you could do is go to the grocery store, go to Burger King, that’s horrific,” Brian added.
The family still stand by the diet (Instagram/liverking)
Meanwhile, the former dentist has turned to beauty influencing, now running her own animal-based skincare company, Krowa, which is of course laden in edible ingredients like beef tallow.
On the website, she writes: “I soon realized that what we put ON our bodies was equally vital as what we put IN them. Naturally, I took matters into my own hands and crafted skincare using tallow, just as our wise ancestors once did and just as many primitive culture tribes do to date.”
So, it’s fair to say she’s on board with the whole thing – clarifying in the documentary: “There’s people out there that say they do this, but they don’t really do it. It’s just for the social media. But this is our life.”Featured Image Credit: Instagram/@liverking
Topics: Documentaries, Film and TV, Fitness, Food and Drink, Health, Netflix, US News, Weird
Published 19:51 12 May 2025 GMT+1
First ever study of obesity drugs reveals the best jab for weight loss
Weight loss drugs and jabs have become more popular in recent years
Using weight loss jabs or drugs to shed the pounds has become more popular in recent years and a new study recently pitted two drugs against one another to see which was more effective.
When it comes to weight loss jabs, many people’s minds go straight to Ozempic, and thats for good reason.
Despite the drug actually being introduced as a drug for people with Type-2 diabetes to help them manage their blood sugar levels, it has become popular for simply losing weight amongst celebrities.
This is despite the often forgotten negative side effects that can arise when misusing the drug.
But for those not wishing to jump on the Ozempic hype, they may have been turning their attentions to other drugs on the market used specifically for weight loss.
Weight loss jabs have become popular in recent years (Getty Stock Image)
The trial saw researchers look at the effectiveness of weight loss for drug Mounjaro and its rival Wegovy.
Reportedly, both drugs have proven to be effective at helping weight loss by tricking the brain into thinking you are full, ultimately meaning you eat less and burn fat stored in the body.
According to a report by the BBC, the trial was paid for by Eli Lilly, the manufacturer of Mounjaro and involved 750 obese people with an average weight of 113kg (249.12 pounds).
They were then asked to take the highest dose they could tolerate of one of the two drugs.
What did the results of the study reveal?
While both worked at achieving weight loss, Mounjaro proved to be the more effective.
The findings, that were presented at the European Congress on Obesity in Malaga and in the New England Journal of Medicine, showed:
- 32% of people lost a quarter of their body weight on Mounjaro compared to 16% on Wegovy
- Those on Mounjaro lost an average of 18cm from their waistlines compared with 13cm on Wegovy.
- Those on Mounjaro had better blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol levels.
- Both had similar levels of side-effects.
- Women tended to lose more weight than men.
Dr Louis Aronne conducted the trial and commented about the findings.
He said: “The majority of people with obesity will do just fine with semaglutide (Wegovy), those at the higher end may ultimately do better with tirzepatide (Mounjaro).”
The trial found Mounjaro was the more effective for weight loss (George Frey/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Professor Naveed Sattar from the University of Glasgow said both drugs were good options for patients, but cautioned that this trial will likely see more people opt for Mounjaro in their quest to ‘lose as much weight as possible’.
He said: “Many will be satisfied with 15% weight loss… many want as much weight loss as possible.
“In the UK, tirzepatide sales privately are now well ahead of semaglutide – that’s just a reality – and this paper will accelerate that I imagine.”
He concluded that while it is good to have these options, it may be better to take the approach of making society healthier in the first place, to stop people developing obesity.Featured Image Credit: Getty Images/Iuliia Burmistrova
Topics: News, Science, World News, Food and Drink, Health
Published 17:59 13 Jul 2024 GMT+1
Family of 14-year-old who died after eating spicy chip files lawsuit against company
The teenager complained of stomach pains before collapsing and was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead
The family of a teenager who tragically lost his life after taking part in a social media challenge is suing the companies they believe are responsible.
The One Chip Challenge had been circulating on the internet for a few years but taking part would prove fatal for one Massachusetts teenager.
The challenge would see people purchase a Paqui Carolina Reaper chip, one of the hottest in the world, eat it, and try not to eat or drink anything afterwards for as long as possible.
While the product has prominent labelling stating that is not ‘children or anyone sensitive to spicy foods or with underlying health conditions’, according to the company, young people were still able to get their hands on it and often uploaded themselves eating it to social media.
Harris Wolobah died on 1 September, 2023 after taking part in the challenge. An autopsy found that he had eaten a large quantity of chile pepper extract and also had a congenital heart defect.
The challenge would see people eat the chip and avoid food and water for as long as possible.(Instagram/@paquichips)
According to the autopsy from the Chief Office of the Medical Examiner: “[Harris died of] cardiopulmonary arrest in the setting of recent ingestion of food substance with high capsaicin concentration.” Capsaicin is the component that gives chilli peppers their heat.
On Thursday (11 July) the family filed a lawsuit in in Suffolk Superior Court for Harris against Hershey and Walgreens.
One of the attorneys representing the families, Douglas Sheff, spoke to the media about the lawsuit.
He said: “Today we filed a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of this wonderful family for the loss of their beloved son, Harris.
“The defendants charged about $10 for each chip, $10 for the chip that killed Harris, $10 for his life,
“Isn’t it clear that these defendants knew full well that this chip was unreasonably dangerous? And isn’t this an obvious marketing campaign designed to attract kids to that very danger?”
The family are seeking punitive damages for the death of Harris in the lawsuit.
The family filed a lawsuit in in Suffolk Superior Court for Harris against Hershey, Walgreens and several others in the case.(GoFundMe)
Following his death, Worcester Public Schools Superintendent Rachel Monárrez also released a statement offering support for anyone who had been impacted by his death.
The statement read: “It is with a heavy heart I share that we lost a rising star, Harris Wolobah, who was a sophomore scholar at Doherty Memorial High School.”
“As a mother and educator, I cannot imagine how hard this is on his family, friends and teachers. My heart goes out to all who knew and loved him.
“Worcester Public Schools is offering counseling and social emotional support for those who have been impacted by this tragedy.”
UNILAD has contacted Hershey and Walgreens for comment.Featured Image Credit: Gofundme/Getty Images/Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe
Topics: News, US News, Food and Drink, Health
