Wedding brawl row over booze stash
AFAMILY has been torn apart after a wedding exploded into violence.
Bride Melanie Harrison and groom Anthony Dingle, from Macclesfield, were celebrating their nuptials at Hollin Hall Country House Hotel in Kerridge, in August last year.
But at around 5pm, shortly after the wedding breakfast, tensions flared, Macclesfield Magistrates court heard.
Staff rowed with guests, including the groom’s dad Stephen Dingle, after they started consuming alcohol stashed in a car boot.
Michael Dingle, the groom’s brother, then confronted his father Stephen about his behaviour, magistrates were told.
But when other family members got involved staff called the police.
While being quizzed by officers in the car park, Stephen Dingle began to struggle, prompting his brother-in-law Neil Whike to intervene, the court heard.
Police tackled Whike and used pepper spray three times to incapacitate him, magistrates were told. During the fight Whike suffered a broken nose and cut to his head, prompting his daughter Samantha Whike to grapple with one of the officers, the court heard.
Inside the hotel, the groom was involved in a physical altercation with his step-sister Laura Breeze, magistrates were told.
Up to 10 police cars and a riot van were sent to tackle the fight on the driveway of the historic hall.
The violence was seen by some of the 15 children at the wedding, which was shut down early amid fears of more trouble.
At Macclesfield magistrates’ court Stephen Dingle, of Oak Tree Drive, Crewe, admitted assaulting two police officers and criminal damage to a car.
Laura Breeze, 30, of Remer Street, Crewe, admitted obstructing police but was cleared of assault after a trial.
Neil Whike, 48, of Beeston Mount, Bollington, admitted obstructing police but was cleared of assaulting two police officers after a trial.
Samantha Whike, 21, of Beeston Mount, Bollington, admitted assaulting a police officer.
Dingle was fined £365, while the other three were each fined £95.
Speaking after the sentence, bride Melanie said: “Anthony and I want nothing to do with that part of the family. We are still completely devastated.”