Sunday People

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The Selwoods are notorious in their hometown of Tonbridge, Kent , where the three brothers roam around shirtless, clutching Stella lager and starting fights.

DARREN, 34, is the latest to be jailed. He got 15 months last week for stabbing a pal who asked to share his steak dinner.

LEE, 31, was jailed a fortnight ago along with MUM LESLEY, 53, for their latest public affray conviction­s. The pair were sent down for a total of 19 months.

JASON, 33, is already serving six years for blowing up a bank cash machine with gas canisters and stealing £19,000.

Lesley’s daughter KELLY, 29, who has an assault conviction for drenching a neighbour with Toilet Duck cleaner, is the only member of the family NOT behind bars over the festive season.

Oldest brother Darren joined his mum and two brothers in prison after he flipped when a pal asked: “Give us a bit of steak.”

Darren replied: “No, but you can have this instead” – and stabbed him in the stomach.

The friend survived and Darren, who has 17 previous conviction­s for 27 offences, admitted unlawful wounding at Maidstone Crown.

His longest sentence was five-and-a-half years for grievous bodily harm in 2008 after he stamped on a man’s head at a party t hree days before Christmas, causing brain damage.

In 2014, Darren knocked out a teenage girl clubber, fracturing her eye socket, at a nightspot in Tunbridge Wells.

He was imprisoned for three years.

In 2013 he was jailed for affray with younger brother Lee and mum Lesley after teaming up to attack a neighbour. Lesley brandished a trampoline pole during the attack which was sparked after a car was torched in Chatham, Kent.

Pointing to his mum as she stood alongside him in the dock, Darren asked the judge: “But you are going to lock a woman up?” Both Lesley and Lee have since reoffended and are back inside, with the pair sent down j ust a fortnight ago for fighting in public. Lesley got six months for affray and her son was given 13 months for affray and racially aggravated harassment. A day before sentencing at Canterbury Crown Court, Lee posted on Facebook: “Sentencing tomorrow looking at 2 years if no one hears from me I’m locked up. I’m under a lot of stress.” A pal replied: “Don’t worry, if you’re given 2 you’ll be out before Christmas next year.” Locals posted messages of delight after the latest jail stretches were handed down.

One wrote: “Please for the love of god and plain old justice throw the key away.

“The whole Selwood tribe is in prison now. They remind me of the family from The Hills Have Eyes.”

Another, Sam Chilvers, said the family had been a menace for years.

Threat

He wrote of Darren: “This complete oxygen waster shot me with a sling shot when I was a kid.”

And a third added: “Darren is in and out of prison, has been since we left school, all of those conviction­s and all of those arrests just go to show he will keep on doing what he does.

“He’s a threat to society... keep him locked up!” But Lee’s sister Kelly told

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