An innocent member of the public was hit with a shovel as a stag party and a group of workmen brawled in the street.
The groom-to-be, who was wearing a wedding dress while out celebrating his upcoming nuptials with friends in Liverpool city centre, was knocked unconscious and lying in a pool of his own blood after being kicked out of a Concert Square bar. A judge today compared the scenes of violence as being akin to the "wild west", with one visiting drinker having also wrapped his belt around his fist and used it as a makeshift knuckleduster as he threw punches.
Liverpool Crown Court heard this afternoon, Friday, that the stags 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.
