A NIGHTCLUB boss cried in court as details of his arrest were aired.

An ambulance had to be called for Worcester nightclub boss Darren Pinches after he was taken to the floor by police and handcuffed at his home - but when paramedics examined him they could find nothing wrong with him.

The Bushwackers and Browns at the Quay owner reported breathing problems after he was taken to the floor as further details of his arrest were revealed at Warwick Crown Court yesterday.

Police say they caught him flushing cocaine down the bathroom sink after they arrested him at his home in Berkley Gardens, Fernhill Heath.

Pinches could be seen sobbing in the dock and wiping his eyes as details of the struggle were described and it was revealed that his two children and wife were present in the house at the time of his arrest.

Several police officers gave evidence in the trial with the prosecution case expected to finish today (Thursday).

The 52-year-old denies administering cocaine to stupefy or overpower a woman to enable him to engage in sexual activity with her and a sexual assault said by the prosecution to have taken place in a storeroom at Bushwackers on New Year’s Day last year.

He further denies possession of cocaine at his home in Fernhill Heath on January 13 last year, supplying a second woman with cocaine between February 9 and 15, 2016 and offering to supply cocaine to a third between September 3 and 5, 2015.

Witness DC Simon Turner, now retired, said he was one of a number of officers who attended Pinches’s home at around 7.40am on January 13 last year.

He said Pinches answered the door but kept the chain on, examining the police identity cards shown to him before standing outside with the officers.

DC Turner told the jury Pinches was arrested and given a formal caution but he said he needed to ‘collect a few things’. He later heard his colleague, DS Shelley Orr shouting ‘stop it! Stop it!’ and the emergency activation over the radio. He went upstairs to find DS Orr struggling with Pinches in the bathroom. He was one of a number of officers to restrain Pinches and saw a zip lock back in the sink which later tested positive for cocaine. He confirmed an ambulance arrived for Pinches who complained of breathing difficulties but was ‘deemed fit to remain in police custody’ after being assessed by paramedics.

DC Jason Atkins and DC Alex Pullen also appeared as witnesses, both describing how they heard a female voice shouting over the radio followed by the emergency activation and left their car to help DS Orr.

Ben Aina QC, prosecuting, said: “Eventually an ambulance attended to assist in respect of his welfare and breathing.”

“That’s correct” said DC Atkins. “He said he needed an inhaler. I got an inhaler from his wife and administered that to him and an ambulance was called as well.”

Both DC Atkins and DC Pullen confirmed under cross-examination they they had not been wearing gloves when they detained Pinches but had been when they conducted the search of his home afterwards.

Both officers said they had arrived at Pinches’s home at 7.45am, returned to Worcester Police Station and attended Bushwackers later that morning as part of a further search. DC Atkins said he only searched the nightclub’s main office while wearing rubber gloves but DC Pullen was not involved in any search, remaining downstairs in the main bar area.

Scenes of crime officer Rachael Watt was called as a witness. She said she had begun her investigation at Bushwackers at around 9.30am that morning, taking photographs and carrying out two swabs (and two control swabs). We have previously reported how traces of a rare form of cocaine were found on a speaker in the room where a 22-year-old woman says she was sexually assaulted by Pinches after he forced a bag of cocaine into her face. The sample matched that found at Pinches’s home, containing the adulterants paracetamol and a cattle worming agent called Levamisole.

Under cross-examination from Michael Burrows QC she said she had been a scenes of crime officer for 13 years and wore gloves at the scene. She confirmed she had been trained in respect of the risks of possible contamination of exhibits.

She told the jury she would ‘want to know’ if any officer involved in the search of Bushwackers had previously been in contact with cocaine and that at the time she had been unaware of the search which had taken place at Pinches’s home earlier that morning. Mr Burrows said: “At no stage did DS Orr tell you she had been exposed to a puff of cocaine powder?”

Ms Watt said: “I found out about that later on.” She confirmed she had been in company with DS Orr at Bushwackers. DS Orr had already been at the nightclub when Ms Watt arrived. She also confirmed that DS Ore had told her to swab the speaker because she had been told it ‘related to a witness statement’ and she had been doing ‘what CID requested of me that day’.

Under re-examination by Ben Aina QC she said she had carried out the swabs alone and only showed DS Orr the areas she had swabbed after the samples were taken. She recalled that she was alone because she had tripped and remembered thinking ‘thank God no-one saw it’.

The trial continues.