A bouncer accused of sexually harassing a woman and telling her, “I can do what I want”, has been suspended.

Emily White, 19, said she was on a night out in Newquay, Cornwall, when a doorman at the Sailors Arms pub leered at her and made comments about her breasts.

White said she threatened to report him but he told her: “They won’t do anything love.”

The pub said it took “immediate action” after receiving the complaint and that an investigation was under way.

A spokesperson for the Sailors Arms said: “Upon hearing of these allegations, an immediate investigation was launched in collaboration with the agency which employs our door staff.

“Until it is complete, the individual in question will not be employed at our door.”

White wrote about the experience on Twitter, in a tweet that has been shared more than 8,000 times.

She said: “Was sexually harassed by a bouncer in a night club this weekend. So I snapped a photo of his ID, emailed the club, who have emailed his agency, who have begun an official displinary (sic) investigation. He told me, ‘I’m a bouncer I can do what I want’. No mate, no you can’t.”



White, from St Austell, Cornwall, said that at first the bouncer wolf-whistled at her but soon his actions became more threatening and he made comments about her breasts.

She said he moved his arm out of the way so she could photograph his ID. “That’s how cocky he was ... He thought no one would challenge him on it,” she said.

White said she had been overwhelmed by the number of people who responded to her post. “It’s not the worst thing that’s happened to a girl. It’s not even the worst thing that’s happened to me,” she said.

“But I was able to report it and so I did. If the same thing has happened to anyone else, I would urge them to do the same.”

Regency Security, which supplies door staff to the venue, declined to comment.