Mark Latham removed from Royal Randwick restaurant by police

Controversial MP Mark Latham has been escorted by police from a venue at Royal Randwick Racecourse in Sydney.

Latham was asked to leave by management during the Epsom Day racing event on Saturday afternoon, a spokesperson for the Australian Turf Club said, but he refused.

NSW MP Mark Latham was marched out of a venue at Randwick Racecourse on Saturday.Credit: Janie Barrett

Police approached Latham in the Grandview Restaurant, where he debated officers for a short time before police escorted him from the venue about 2pm.

Latham is not allowed on the racetrack after he resigned his ATC membership amid an investigation into his alleged verbal abuse of a club official at Rosehill Racecourse in April, the ATC spokesperson said.

Latham entered the racecourse as a guest of another member and walked through the Chairman’s Club, the racecourse’s high-end enclave where Racing NSW chief executive Peter V’landys hosts guests.

Latham was given a 12-month good behaviour bond by the club after he was accused of launching a verbal tirade against the club’s then head of corporate affairs and government relations Steve McMahon in the members’ area. McMahon was appointed interim chief executive of the club last month.

Latham was a fierce critic of the proposed $5 billion sale of Rosehill Gardens Racecourse to the state government to build 25,000 homes on the site.

He was contacted for a comment.

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