Man claims he was ‘grossly exploited’ by lap dancing club after spending a third of his salary in single evening

A member of a stag party has claimed he was “grossly exploited” by a Bournemouth lap dancing club after he spent a third of his salary in a single evening.

The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, spent more than £7,500 at the Spearmint Rhino strip club in August 2013 and is claiming that staff “grossly exploited a person in a vulnerable position.”

Arriving at the venue, the man – who lives in Northern Ireland – admits that he was already intoxicated but claims that he ended up alone in a booth after staff plied him with more alcohol until he was unaware of his actions.

In the course of the evening he says he made 13 separate credit card transactions, including two lots of £1,176 taken two minutes apart, £2,304 in three separate instances eight minutes apart and £2,928 in three transactions six minutes apart.

In total he blew a reported £7,584 on three credit cards in the course of the stag party – much of which he claims he cannot remember.

He has spent the last year battling to regain his lost funds without success, claiming that he has never received a satisfactory explanation from the ‘gentleman’s club’. ...The Independent