Woman asked to leave bar as wheelchair deemed 'safety risk'

'I was kicked out of bar because of my wheelchair'1 hour agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleEwan GawneandMat Trewern,North WestMaddie HainingMaddie Haining said she had "never had anything like this happen before"An 18-year-old woman who was escorted out of a nightclub after she was told her wheelchair was a safety risk has described the ordeal as "embarrassing and infuriating".Maddie Haining, from Oldham, went to Club Tropicana in Manchester's Gay Village on Saturday night with a friend but within five minutes of entering was asked by a bar manager to leave.She posted a clip to Instagram of the conversation and said: "It's not okay to be removed from bars because you are disabled and different to other people. If they can be in there then why shouldn't we."Maddie, who was forced to show staff the 2010 Equality Act in protest, said she had been out with a friend at a few other bars in the city that night before they arrived at the club.She said security staff helped lift her wheelchair into the venue and initially told her and her friend there was no problem with them being there.Her friend went to buy a drink, and then security came over and told her they were "really sorry" but they had been told to ask her to leave, she said. When she asked to speak to the manager, he came over and was "horribly rude, really really rude the whole time he was speaking to me", she said."I asked 'how was I a safety risk?' If I was a safety risk they wouldn't have let me in in the first place."They wouldn't explain why, and then the story changed to that I was a fire risk."Maddie HainingMaddie, a college student, said the manager had been "really, really rude". She then showed them the Equality Act on her phone to explain that wheelchair users cannot be removed over a fire risk as evacuation plans must be inclusive. "I said 'you can't make me leave...