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A landlady who barred Andrew Griffiths from his local after he threw £100 in her face has slammed his “vile attitude towards women”.

Griffiths was a regular at The Plough Inn in Burton, Staffs, but Sandra Russell barred him on Christmas Eve 2015 after one of his pals ripped the head off a singing Santa.

When Sandra confronted the group, “drunk and arrogant” Griffiths sneered at her before throwing cash in her face and over the floor.

Sandra said: “He wouldn’t speak to a man that way. He doesn’t like a woman standing up to him, so he hated me.

“Andrew’s friend yanked the Santa’s head off. I said ‘What the hell are you doing?'

“They were drunk, it was approaching 1am. Then Andrew yelled, ‘You can’t talk to us like that’.

“I told them to drink up, then Andrew went, ‘There was no need for you to carry on like that’. I said, ‘No, Andrew, that’s disrespectful. It cost me £130’. He got £100 out his wallet and threw it at me.

“The money went in my face and over the floor. I was angry and upset. I went ‘Get out and don’t bother coming back. You’re barred’.

“He has no respect. I left the money on the floor.”

Ironically, Griffiths did a shift at The Plough in 2011 to raise awareness of the pressures landlords face.

He said at the time: “It was a real insight. A barman, I have found, is a cross between a social worker, an agony aunt and a stand-up comic.”

But barmaid Terri Russell, 21, found Griffiths anything but funny as a customer.

She said he was “rude and two-faced” and added: “I didn’t have big enough boobs for him to be interested in me, thankfully. He would smile to punters’ faces then take the mick out of them.

“If you weren’t on his level you weren’t good enough for him.”

And Debbie McGhee – who runs nearby pub The Elms – also barred Griffiths after a boozy row.

She said: “He’s vile. I’ve been waiting two years to have my say and now I’ve said it. I always said what he was like and no one listened.”