A bouncer broke a tooth and was briefly knocked out from a punch when a brawl broke out in a busy Arnold bar. The fighting started at Sasha's Bar, Front Street, on October 23, 2021, Nottingham Crown Court heard.
It kicked off when the doorman asked a group inside to leave, with defendant Grant Baguley among them. The doorman had been made aware of an earlier incident involving the group and two ladies had expressed concern about them.
But things escalated after the doorman asked them to leave, with his tooth broken in the melee that followed, the court was told on Thursday (May 4). He described how "everyone was brawling".
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One woman ended up on the floor with everyone fighting over the top of her. The doorman left the bar to get help from neighbouring bars and to call police.
But Baguley, 31, of Milverton Road, Bestwood Park, was thought to be the person who approached and swung at the doorman, briefly knocking him out. The bouncer went to A&E at Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, with his broken tooth, tenderness to his nose and cheekbone.
A CT scan showed a possible fracture to his left cheekbone. After the fighting, police attended Baguley's home and found 38 cannabis plants, potentially worth thousands of pounds.
He pleaded guilty before Nottingham Magistrates' Court on April 13 this year to affray and producing cannabis, with his case sent to the crown court for sentencing today.
Now Baguley is a hard-working man, who has been back in contact with his children, and is trying to pay his mortgage, the court heard. Judge Stuart Rafferty KC sentenced him on the basis his life was out of control at the time.
He said the offences were a long time ago - but it was not until March 16 this year that the police got round to charging him - despite the fact there was clear evidence and despite the fact he was identified in the affray.
Baguley had made admissions about the cannabis. "It beggars belief what else was needed?" said the judge. "Three days before you were charged I sentenced you to a community disposal.
"The decision I took then has born fruit and you have not re-offended and got your life back on track." The judge imposed a sentence of 21 months, suspended for two years.
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