Court shown footage of thuggish dad and daughter
PAIR SEEN ATTACKING POLICE AFTER BIRTHDAY DO PUNCH-UP
BODYCAM footage revealed the chaos caused by thuggish dad and daughter Chloe and Ian Brewis.
As he launched into an expletive-ridden rant at police, she drunkenly sobbed – both of them handcuffed on the floor after a 30th birthday party turned violent.
The pair then turned on officers, Chloe biting and slapping them as her father punched one three times in the head.
Now, footage supplied by the Crown Prosecution Service shows just how much trouble they caused following celebrations in Wallsend.
Foul-mouthed Ian is shown being restrained on the floor for 10 minutes as he screams “some skinny c*** hit my daughter and pulled her wig off the f ****** w ***** !”
But moments later,
Chloe comes into shot.
As an officer urges colleagues to lock her up for assault, her dad shouts: “Don’t you dare touch my daughter.”
He then appears to question why the police officer is restraining him, to which the PC responds: “Because you’ve just repeatedly hit me in the head.”
North Tyneside Magistrates’ Court heard the 55-year-old hit the officer three times.
Both dad and daughter, of Cheviot Mount in Byker, have been ordered to do unpaid work – and compensate the officers – after admitting assault by beating of an emergency worker.
At the first hearing, their solicitor accused the officers of being “very, very heavy-handed”.
But prosecuting, Iain Jordan told the sentencing hearing the clip showed the “real drama and real fear” faced by officers that night.
It shows Northumbria Police officers scrambling around as they try to control the fallout from the December 8 incident.
At one point, Ian claims: “I’m not even p***ed, I’ve been drinking shandy.”
But the officer, out of breath from the tussle, replies: “It must have been 27-year-old strong shandy.”
The Byker kitchen porter then apologises.
But after suffering three blows, the officer admits: “At this point in time, your apology means nothing.
“I’ve come to do a job – I don’t come to be treated like a punchbag.”
The party, the court previously heard, had been a “friendly do” until leaving time when Chloe got in a spat over a handbag with a cousin’s new girlfriend.
That ended with Chloe, who has battled alopecia, getting punched by a male relative which knocked her wig off her head.
Her dad then “squared up” to a male, headbutting him before turning on police.
At sentencing, it was said that Chloe, who works at Northumbria University, hasn’t been back to her day job since her crime came to light.
“The way the headline was worded resulted in a lot of social media attention,” said her solicitor Jack Lovell, mitigating.
“As a result, Miss Brewis has since been off work due to anxiety.”
It emerged another Brewis family member – Chloe’s brother – was reprimanded for his role in the incident, and received a fixed penalty notice for being drunk and disorderly.
Explaining why the dad got involved, Mr Lovell said he jumped into action after seeing the wig come off Chloe.
He said: “After seeing what has happened to his daughter things have escalated.
“He accepts that this is not something he should have got involved in.”
Magistrates sentenced Ian to 250 hours of unpaid work and his daughter to 60 hours, both reduced due to their guilty pleas.