A landlady has issued an angry warning to punters she suspects of taking cocaine inside her pub.

Judy Boulton warned ‘I’m onto you’ in a message left inside the men’s toilets at the New Inn in Stoke-on-Trent.

‘Whoever keeps putting empty “coke” bags behind the toilet f**k them off. I’m on to you. Judy’, it reads.

The experienced businesswoman took on the venue in the hope of restoring it to its former glory.

She has now removed the notice, which was up as drinkers hit pubs over the weekend.

But she says she is serious, vowing to hand lifetime bans to any drug-takers who she catches.

‘We found a couple of empty bags. We do not want people doing drugs in our pub’, she said.

‘I have a zero-tolerance approach to drugs. I have done all the training courses and got all the certificates.

‘I do not want people taking drugs in here. That is why I am on top of it.

‘If I catch anyone doing drugs in this pub they will be banned for life and I will assist the police in any prosecution.’

Judy’s latest project comes after she managed a number of pubs across the city over the last 12 years – including The Weston Coyney Arms, The Waggon and Horses and The Oak Tree.

Speaking in December, she said: ‘The New Inn has been run by several people in the last couple of years. The regulars do not know if they are coming or going.

‘I have had my licence for 12 years and worked in bars for 30 years. I am hoping to be here for a while.

‘We get a mixed crowd in here, the young lads and the older ones. I am excited about being in Burslem for the first time.’

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