A man who knocked out a groom-to-be wearing a wedding dress on his stag-do told police who arrested him 'it was funny', a court was told. Anthony Hughes, 28, told police 'I'm not a**ed what happens' after rendering his victim, David Baron, unconscious and lying in a pool of his own blood.
Mr Baron had been out on his stag do in Concert Square, Liverpool, before the celebration turned into a 'brawl from the wild west', the court heard, with a Good Samaritan who came to his aid being hit with a shovel after he and his friends had squared off with a group of workmen.
Liverpool Crown Court heard on Friday the stag party had been drinking in McCooley's on Wood Street on June 25, 2021, but were ejected at around 6.30pm after flouting social distancing rules which were in place at the time - having been 'mixing between tables'. Nardeen Nemat, prosecuting, described how members of the group were walking along Fleet Street 'loitering and play fighting' when they were approached by the workers - employees of a paving contractor - before they returned to their van.
