Police have objected to plans for a new Greenwich business by two brothers whose previous Mexican restaurant was used as a Breaking Bad-style drug dealers' headquarters.

Desperados and High Chaparral in the town centre had their licenses revoked in March after an undercover police investigation found a drug kingpin had been allowed to use the mezzanine floor as his "office". There were also allegations of drunken teenage parties ending in violence.

But the duo behind the venues - brothers Cuneyt and Yavuz Ozborme - had already applied for a licence to change the restaurants' name to Buffalo and run them as one new business with their head chef as company director.

A Greenwich Council licensing committee is set to consider the application on May 12, but the police have made a string of objections, saying they have "no confidence" in the brothers.

Licensing officer PC Jason Coombes wrote: "These operators have shown that they are comfortable with allowing organised criminals to frequent their premises, and were even complicit during an assault allowing the perpetrator to return to the premises whilst handing the bleeding victim some napkins. 

"During the incident there was no attempt to make contact with the police to inform them of the violent assault or for the door staff to apprehend the offender.

"It is blatantly clear to the police that the premises were run badly previously and there is nothing in the submission of the new application that would lead us to consider that the premises will operate in any other way except badly."