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typeof(data.detail.carousel) === ‘undefined’ || typeof(data.detail.carousel.el_) === ‘undefined’) {<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\treturn;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t}<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tvar player = data.detail.carousel.el_;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tvar container = player.closest(‘.metro-video-player’);<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tvar placeholder = container.querySelector(‘.metro-video-player__up-next-placeholder’);<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tcontainer.removeChild(placeholder);<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tcontainer.classList.add(‘metro-video-player–related-videos-loaded’);<br \/>\n\t\t\t});<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The moment armed men tried to force their way into an upmarket <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/london\/\" data-track=\"inline-tag-auto-link_article\">London<\/a> nightclub has been caught on camera.<\/p>\n<p>Four men have been arrested after <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2025\/03\/30\/men-armed-machetes-try-storm-london-nightclub-22818168\/\">people \u2018armed with machetes\u2019<\/a> tried to gain access to Tabu nightclub in Mayfair in the early hours of Sunday morning, leaving two people injured.<\/p>\n<p>Footage of the chaotic incident showed a small group of men shouting and brandishing what appears to be weapons above their heads in front of security staff. <\/p>\n<p>Amid the confusion a car alarm was triggered, while one of the men picked up a metal post and threw it over his head towards bouncers and onlookers.<\/p>\n<p>Police were called at 3.11am and one man was arrested at the scene on Dover Street.<\/p>\n<p>Three more men were arrested in the early hours of Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"646\" height=\"388\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22830902 lazyload\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/softnary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SEI_245669165-85fd.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Four people have been arrested so far (Picture: UKNIP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22830884 lazyload\" alt=\"Dramatic moment men fight with machetes in the street after trying to break into nightclub\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/softnary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SEI_245932607-d2d6.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>The men appeared to be wielding machetes (Picture: UKNIP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A Metropolitan Police spokesperson told <strong>Metro<\/strong>: \u2018Police were called to a venue on Dover Street, W1 following reports of a disturbance and three people in possession of weapons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Officers attended and one man was arrested at the scene on suspicion of possession of an offensive weapon. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018Following initial enquiries, three men were arrested in Hertfordshire in the early hours of this morning in connection with this investigation. All four men remain in custody.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018At this time, it\u2019s believed that this was an isolated incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Two people sustained injuries which are not life changing.\u2019<\/p>\n<div class=\"factbox\" data-ico=\"factbox_article\" data-track-module=\"factbox_article\">\n<h2 class=\"factbox-title\">\n\t\t\t\tLatest London news\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<div class=\"factbox-content\">\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2025\/03\/31\/barebackers-commuters-plaguing-london-tube-network-22794203\/\">‘Barebackers’ are the commuters plaguing the London tube network<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2025\/03\/27\/fungus-infected-zombie-spiders-invaded-london-22801577\/\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2025\/03\/29\/heathrow-airport-face-disruption-easter-strikes-announced-22815826\/\">Heathrow Airport could face more disruption at Easter after strikes announced<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2025\/04\/01\/three-killed-car-crashes-bus-sparks-huge-inferno-22826874\/\"><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2025\/04\/01\/three-killed-car-crashes-bus-sparks-huge-inferno-22826874\/\">Three killed after car crashes into bus and sparks huge inferno<\/a><\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>To get the latest news from the capital visit Metro’s<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/tag\/london\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> London news hub<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>UK News and Pictures, whose photographer took photos of officers at the scene,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uknip.co.uk\/news\/uk\/breaking\/men-armed-with-machetes-attempt-to-storm-tabu-club-in-mayfair\/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork\">reported<\/a> a nearby venue manager witnessed the moment the men tried to force their way in.<\/p>\n<p>The unnamed worker said: \u2018It was pure chaos. The men tried to charge the door with large blades. How anyone wasn\u2019t hurt was just pure luck.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Praising the swift\u00a0response\u00a0from police, he said: \u2018The officers dealt with it very quickly, and we saw a number of people being arrested. <\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s not good for\u00a0business\u00a0to have this kind of trouble, but thankfully the situation was brought under control.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Tabu nightclub describes itself as \u2018the home of Tokyo Nightlife, located in the heart of Mayfair\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>It adds that \u2018for the best experience and the easiest way to gain access into our Tokyo inspired universe, a table reservation is highly encouraged\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Met has asked anyone with footage or other information about the incident to get in touch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong><strong><strong>Get in touch with our news team by emailing us at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:webnews@metro.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">webnews@metro.co.uk<\/a>.<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>For more stories like this, <\/strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>check our news page<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{“@context”:”https:\/\/schema.org”,”@type”:”VideoObject”,”name”:”Metro.co.uk”,”duration”:”T29S”,”thumbnailUrl”:”https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/04\/01\/14\/96788349-0-image-a-87_1743513299198.jpg”,”uploadDate”:”2025-04-01T14:12:56+0100″,”description”:”Men refused entry to an upmarket nightclub allegedly tried to storm it ‘armed with machetes’ last night.nnTwo people were injured during the incident at Tabu nightclub in Mayfair, around the corner from the celebrity favourite Annabel’s.”,”contentUrl”:”https:\/\/videos.metro.co.uk\/video\/met\/2025\/04\/01\/4652613320708802920\/480x270_MP4_4652613320708802920.mp4″,”height”:480,”width”:270} To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1616,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions\/1616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softnary.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}