Both of Birmingham’s famous Legs 11 lap-dancing venues have been closed following a meeting of city licensing chiefs.

In a behind-closed-doors meeting councillors withdrew both the sexual entertainment venue and alcohol licenses from the clubs in Broad Street and the Chinatown district.

The police had ordered the review of the licence following a raid on the Broad Street venue to investigate slavery claims last month.

And the city council’s licensing committee was said to be almost unanimous in stripping both clubs of their licenses - effectively closing them for business.

The Birmingham Mail understands the clubs owners or legal representatives did not attend the hearing.

The Broad Street venue shut its own doors shortly after the raid, announcing on social media it had been closed for urgent repairs.

Legs 11 lapdancing club in Birmingham

No arrests were made and the West Bromwich-based Hope for Justice, which campaigns against modern slavery and took part in the raid, said no hard evidence of people trafficking was uncovered.

However a hastily convened licensing sub-committee on July 4 was shown CCTV footage and evidence from the raid and took the decision to suspend the licence .

A report from that committee said: “The sub-committee determined the causes of the serious crime and/or serious disorder appeared to originate from a concerted, sophisticated and highly organised criminal operation being run from the premises.

“This included, but was not limited to, financial fraud and human trafficking.”

It concluded: “The sub committee was presented with compelling evidence at this stage which satisfied them on the balance of probabilities that the premises were indeed associated with serious crime.”

Now that suspension has been turned into a full removal of the license. The club has a right of appeal.

No-one from Legs 11 was immediately available for comment despite attempts to contact them.

The club opened its first venue in Ladywell Walk, Chinatown in 1996.