Teenager had role in violent street brawl
A teenager who played a prominent role in a violent mass brawl where someone was stabbed has received a two-year youth rehabilitation order.
Up to 50 people were involved in the pre-arranged fight outside the City of Wolverhampton College's Paget Road campus in March last year. Only 18-year-old Hassan Shah has now received a conviction. College student Shah, of Brook Road in Portobello, Willenhall, had previously been found not guilty of wounding with intent but guilty of affray.
Defending him Miss Ann Tayo pointed to Shah's recent good course attendance as a sign that he was changing his ways.
Miss Tayo said: "He's had a very difficult and poor start in life. This was a pre-arranged fight. He was one of 40 to 50 individuals involved that day and he's the only person standing in the dock."
Shah had previous convictions for robbery and using threatening words and behaviour.
In sentencing him at Wolverhampton Crown Court, Judge Martin Walsh said: "This was a serious incident of a violent nature, during the course of which Stephen Ray Earl was stabbed.
Curfew
"You've got a troubling antecedent history but the recent progress you've made is to your benefit.I hope that progress continues."
Shah was given a supervision order, placed under a curfew from 7pm to 7am for three months and 180 hours of unpaid work.
In a separate case a man who unleashed a violent attack outside Halesowen College has avoided jail .
Sean Smith repeatedly punched and then kicked Tyler Kimberley, who was involved in an argument with Smith's friend Lucy Dale the previous day.
Smith, aged 20, of Rowley Village, in Rowley Regis, and who has since been suspended from the college, was given 52 weeks' detention is a young offenders' institute, suspended for two years.
