The former manager of a Birmingham pub has been fined £3,000 for annoying neighbours with loud music and allowing punters to drink in the beer garden until the early hours.

Police and licensing officers swooped on the Victoria Inn, Bordesley Green, after a series of complaints about late night revelling, Birmingham Magistrates Court heard.

In July last year, Birmingham City Council chiefs met Forrester Mundle, 49, the manager – described in court as the ‘designated premises supervisor’ – in a bid to drive home the message he needed to run the pub within the terms of his license agreement.

Two weeks later officers wearing head-cams returned to the pub shortly before 2.30am. They filmed staff and revellers flouting the licence rules, including blasting music out beyond the 2am limit, said Julie Kettle, prosecuting.

“The uniformed officers heard loud, heavy bass music and a man speaking over it through a microphone. As soon as the officers walked in the music was stopped,” she added.

She said despite a ban on drinking alcohol in the beer garden at all times, customers were found swigging bottles of beer.

“Under the terms of the licence the beer garden should also have been closed from 11pm, yet customers were sat there drinking after 2am in the morning,” she added. “When interviewed about it the defendant said he was the victim of fabricated complaints.”

Mundle had previously pleaded guilty to allowing music to be played after 2am at the premises, contrary to the Licensing Act 2003, but denied a further five similar charges under the same law. He was due to stand trial this week, but instead pleaded guilty to all charges after his solicitor, Mr Jeffrey Atkinson, was shown CCTV evidence recorded on the head-cams.

Mr Atkinson said: “On this particularly night, just hours before the enforcement officers arrived, my client discovered that a former enforcement officer, who was in fact his girlfriend, had died. He was not himself and was quite upset. Is this death just an excuse? I doubt any human being would see this as an excuse.”

He said Mundle, of Aston Road North, Aston, had since quit the pub and now does odd jobs as a builder, earning up to £1,200 a month. Magistrates fined him a total of £3,000 and ordered him to pay £1,000 court costs, as well as a £15 victim surcharge.

His designated premises supervisor licence, which he could use at any pub in the country, was also suspended for three months.