Bare-knuckle fighter jailed for pub attack

A bare-knuckle fighter and his brother have been jailed after a vicious pub attack in the Black Country.

Rocky and Robert Price will each serve 15 months after the brawl at the Wetherspoons pub at The Waterfront, Brierley Hill.

Rocky, aged 22, shouted: "I'm Rocky Price, the bare-knuckle fighter from Kingswinford," before punching his female victim in the face, Wolverhampton Crown Court heard. His brother Robert, 20, took off his shirt so he was bare-chested, and punched and kicked the woman's partner.

Both brothers, who live at the Oak Lane caravan site in Kingswinford, admitted affray. The fight, on October 12 last year, started when Rocky Price criticised a group of people at the pub for the way they looked after their child.

Prosecuting, Mr Julian Elcock, said: "There was a group of people drinking at the Wetherspoons outside.

"One of the group had a three-year-old child who was allowed to walk around, on a number of occasions very close to the road. The two defendants came later and having seen the child for a while, one of them made a comment."

He said the child's mother began shouting and pushed Rocky on the chest, then he began goading her.

As Rocky punched her, Robert Price punched and kicked the woman's partner in the head after he had gone over to intervene before setting upon a third man who was trying to help out.

Mr Elcock added: "After a while there were police sirens and the defendants ran off. They were tracked by CCTV cameras and seen swapping shirts. They got on a bus and police were able to get the bus to stop and arrest them."

Defending the brothers, Mr Kevin Grego said they were acting in self-defence.

The court heard they were both on a suspended sentence for a separate charge of affray imposed in April last year.

Judge Michael Challinor sentenced them both to nine months in prison for affray, and activated their six-month suspended sentence to run consecutively.

He said: "It seems that you have been acting as a violent team."