Town brawl thug is jailed

gestures towards each other.”

Diskin was still standing in the doorway of the restaurant acting aggressively and threatening other people when police arrived.

Mr Astin told magistrates that nobody was seriously injured in the fight and many of those involved had scattered by the time the officers arrived. A similar episode of violence, again involving a huge group of people, erupted outside the restaurant at the same time the morning after this incident.

Mike Sisson-Pell, mitigating, said that it was difficult to say why the brawl started but his client was not responsible for it.

He told magistrates: “Mr Diskin had been out with friends drinking and afterwards cannot remember a great deal about what had gone on.

“He had a number of injuries, including bruising around his nose and armpit, and doesn’t know how these injuries were caused.

“It’s clear from the CCTV that this incident was ongoing; he was on the fringes and then became involved and threw some punches himself.

“Fortunately nobody required hospital treatment and it appeared to be more of a drunken melee.”

Magistrates jailed Diskin for six weeks and ordered him to pay a £115 victim surcharge upon his release.

Three other men appeared at the Huddersfield court in connection with the incident.

They were Troy Wallace, 21, of Harpe Inge in Dalton, Tyne Haggarty, 26, of Scottgate Road in Honley, and a 15-year-old boy from Huddersfield who cannot be named for legal reasons.

All three deny violent disorder and face a full-day trial on May 21.