A nightclub at the centre of four stabbings in the last 15 months has clung on to its licence.

Club 791, which was also the scene of a shotgun shooting and a brawl in which revellers ripped off table legs to use as weapons, will be allowed to stay open after its management reached a "compromise" with police.

Officers asked the council to review the venue's licence following the most recent violence, in which a clubber was knifed in the neck on October 10.

The stabbing was plotted by a promoter in a bid to shut the venue down in an act of revenge, claimed Club 791's lawyer.

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Councillor Jane Avis, who chaired the licensing sub-committee meeting called to decide the venue's fate this morning, said: "This could have been a fatal incident. We have had many [licence review] applications put in front of us for far less."

The stabbing was the 15th outbreak of serious violence at the nightclub since June 2011.

Those included a shooting that month, when three masked men blasted a shotgun into the club, and a fight in September 2012 in which a clubber was stabbed five times in the back.

In May this year a man "repeatedly punched" two women in the club after they rejected his attempts to chat them up, according to police.

Officers were unable to identify suspects in any of the attacks, in part because the club's security staff did not scan their IDs and were unable to provide high-quality CCTV footage.

Police constable Darren Rhodes, Croydon's licensing officer, said the club's security had "seriously hindered" attempts to investigate the stabbing.

But he acknowledged the club's owner Fred Kyeyune "works closely with police", adding: "If this licence were to remain in place then I am confident that this working relationship would continue."

David Dadds, the club's lawyer, said Mr Kyeyne had been forced to be less involved in the club's management so be could care for his terminally ill wife, who died of cancer in August.

Mr Dadds told the committee: "This year he's been very much troubled by running the business and looking after his children and his wife.

"The police have been very compassionate about that but obviously the public do need to be protected."

PC Rhodes said he had been assured Mr Kyeyune would now "be able to dedicate himself to the task in hand". 

Councillors accepted the "compromise agreement" between police and the club, opting not to revoke or suspend its licence or remove Mr Kyeyune as premises supervisor.

As part of the deal, Club 791 must begin using a ID scanner, upgrade its CCTV system, close earlier on weekends and consult with police at least seven days before any events it hosts.

The venue has already changed replaced its security staff on the orders of the police.

Mr Kyeyune said: "My security team was not up to their game. I made the mistakes, I did not do what my licence required me to do.

"They wanted me to use an approved company and I have that in place now."