A Boxing Day brawl between two males queuing to get inside a Pembroke nightclub has seen both men charged in court.
Twenty-four-year-old Shawn Coleman, of Glebelands, Milford Haven, admitted a charge of using threatening and abusive behaviour, when he appeared at Haverfordwest Magistrates Court on Tuesday morning.
Twenty-seven-year-old Gethin Harries, also of Milford Haven, pleaded guilty to the same charge, at a separate hearing in court on Tuesday afternoon.
Prosecutor Vaughan Pritchard-Jones told magistrates how the two males had been out on Boxing Day night and the incident occurred into the early hours of the following day when they were waiting to get inside Paddles Nightclub on Pembroke’s Main Street.
“I don’t think the two parties were particularly friends, but they were known to each other through mutual friends they were out with.
“Mr. Harries got into a heated discussion with his girlfriend, and then appeared to lean into Mr. Coleman’s face, before he pushed him back, and they got into a fight together.
“There were lots of haymaker punches being thrown around by the two, but hardly any landing. It was an unpleasant incident as there were lots of people queuing outside the nightclub at the time,” continued Mr. Pritchard-Jones.
Mr. Coleman’s defence solicitor Jonathan Webb told the court that a ‘melee’ ensued, but it was really just lots of ‘handbags’ being thrown by both men.
“It was an unpleasant incident, but the majority of the people in the queue found it quite funny and lots of mobile phones came out to film it, which I suppose is the society we live in today,” he told the court.
Magistrates fined Mr. Coleman £220 for the offence and ordered him to pay prosecution costs of £85 and a £30 victim surcharge.
Mr. Harries was fined £120 and also ordered to pay costs of £85 and a £30 victim surcharge.