Bottle death victim's family call for glass ban

Emma O'Kane

The family of a barmaid who was killed after a youth hurled a bottle into a crowded Heywood pub, have called for a ban on all bottles and glasses in pubs.

Emma O’Kane, a 27-year-old mother of three, died when Neil McNulty threw the bottle into the Queen Anne Hotel on Boxing Day last year.

Now Emma's family and her fiance Michael Shepherd have set up a petition on Facebook to prevent the use of glass and bottles in pubs in order to save lives in the future and they plan to distribute leaflets in local shops.

However, the British Beer and Pub Foundation believes that drinking from plastic cups would reduce the 'experience' for many innocent drinkers.

McNulty was jailed for four and a half years for the manslaughter of Emma O'Kane.