O2 Overnighter

Many students have ended up worse for wear after an Oxford club night.

But most manage to sleep off the excess in their own – or particularly loving partners’ – beds.

No such luck for the LMH student who enjoyed his first taste of the O2 academy so much that he spent the night there.

The O2- second ‘sleeper’ in five years

The anonymous fresher, unfortunately unavailable for comment but described both as “unassuming” and a “top lad”, overindulged and could get no further than the men’s loo.

He awoke at 5am, finding himself locked in a cubicle and trapped within the dark and deserted building.

Despite the legendary reputation of the institution, The Tab is sorry to report that he was alone.

His efforts to escape the site led to further embarrassment as he only succeeded in triggering a series of alarms that summoned security personnel to the Cowley Road.

They were quickly able to release him, but questions must be asked of an operation that can lock someone in at the end of a night rather than out- especially when he was clearly in no fit state to avoid detection.

The Tab did ask those questions and a spokesman for the O2 told us that “Normally the security team does a sweep of the whole club, including loos, when closing everything up after a night”.

They said that the company was taking the incident incredibly seriously.  “Someone didn’t do their job properly and an in-house investigation is ongoing to determine who is responsible. Whoever it is will be reprimanded or sacked- whatever is appropriate”.

They were also keen to stress the rarity of such incidents by stressing that this is “only” the second time in five years that someone has been left behind after a night.

The source said the staff “prides itself on customer service” and that the night was a success “apart from that”.

LMH fell to the bottom of the Norrington table in the summer and on this evidence it shouldn’t expect to be leaving anytime soon.  The O2, we are assured, will not be offering lodging again.