Heineken UK confirmed it had told the pub to stop serving its products on 20 April. If people don’t like it, they didn’t have to come through my door.” She added: “I am upset that my gollies were taken. She said: “If people think that golly dolls looks like them, they’re the ones who’s got a problem.” In her interview, Ryley again denied she was racist and claimed that younger generations did not understand golly dolls. Many people from Camra have been in here … and they’ve never ever said anything about the collection.” She said: “I am gutted what Camra done to us. Ryley said she was disgusted by Camra’s decision to remove the pub from its guide. The following day Camra, the Campaign for Real Ale, said it was reviewing how it granted the White Hart several awards and a place in its guide which highlighted the pub’s “extensive collection of old-fashioned soft toys”. A notice behind the pub blamed the police raid on “snowflake complaints”.īenice Riley with some of the dolls. She also said she and her husband had plans to retire to Turkey. When the Guardian visited the pub last month, Ryley expressed her determination to display replacement golly dolls behind the bar. And we probably would have plodded on with the pub.” She said: “I’m angry … because if the police left it alone like they left it alone in 2018, we wouldn’t be in this situation now. Ryley blamed Essex police for acting on a complaint about the dolls when it had chosen not to take action after a similar complaint in 2018. And Innserve who serve our pumps and line cleans, they’re not going to come on site any more.” She said: “Carlsberg Heineken told us to stop selling their product because they don’t want their name associated with the pub because of the stigma. She revealed that two of its beer suppliers, Heineken and Carlsberg, had refused to allow their products to be served in the pub and Innserve, which maintained the pub’s pumps, was also refusing to serve it. His wife confirmed the pub was closing on Monday in an interview with the Thurrock Nub News. He is due to be interviewed by police later this month when he returns from Turkey, where the family have a holiday home.
Chris Ryley’s Facebook account has since been deleted. It later confirmed that as part of the investigation it was examining Facebook posts by Ryley’s husband, in which he compared the dolls to lynchings in Mississippi and expressed backing for far-right groups. But Essex police said it had had no contact with Braverman over the incident.
The raid gained national attention after a source close to Suella Braverman suggested the home secretary had reprimanded the force over its action.
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