Three nightclub bouncers pleaded not guilty to gross negligence manslaughter at the Old Bailey on Monday in connection with the death of Adam Hird.
22-year-old Lewis Thorne from Ramsgate, 51-year-old Mark Pantalleresco of Tamworth and 30-year-old Sebastiano Ragusa of Walthamstow will face trial at the Old Bailey on 4 January next year.
The charges relate to an incident outside the No 65 bar on Albert Embankment in the early hours of Sunday 15 June 2014.
Adam Hird died in hospital two days later.
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