Glasses and chairs thrown in pub fight
SUSPENDED JAIL TERM FOR MAN’S PART IN VIOLENCE
CHAIRS and glasses were thrown as two groups of men started fighting one another in a busy pub, a court heard.
The pub manager’s attention was drawn to the trouble at The Red Heart in Easthorpe Street, Ruddington, on September 19 last year.
Nottingham Crown Court heard people were ushered outside and police were called.
Damage was caused to the pub, a fruit machine and chairs, and a large number of glasses were smashed all over the floor.
One offender was Quaid Gayle who was pictured on CCTV wearing a baseball cap, pale T-shirt and wearing a man bag across his body.
He was throwing glasses before he ended up injured on the floor and later went to hospital.
An image was referred to in court regarding scarring from an injury he suffered.
He described everyone involved as ‘scumbags’... around 15 people ‘nearly killed him’
Dawn Pritchard
Gayle was at the pub when police attended but he was not keen to talk to them, the court heard.
“He described everyone involved as ‘scumbags.’..around 15 people ‘nearly killed him,’” said Dawn Pritchard, prosecuting yesterday.
“He said he had thrown glasses and a chair once he realised he was injured.
“He was part of public disorder in the pub. He throws certainly one or two stools and a number of glasses”.
She said Gayle has 10 convictions for 19 offences between 2010 and 2020.
Gayle, 29, of Broxtowe Lane, Aspley, pleaded guilty to affray and was given a 10-month prison sentence, suspended for 21 months.
This includes a “thinking skills” course for 19 sessions and 20 rehabilitation activity days.
Judge James Sampson told him:
“Quaid Gayle, you are 29, you have previous convictions which, on any view, are a bad record.
“You involved yourself, I don’t know why, in what was a bad case of affray. It took place in a public house with many innocent members of the public caught up in violence.
“You came out of this incident badly in one sense,” added the judge.
“You have to accept this sort of thing happens when one involves oneself in unlawful violence.”