PREM STAR FACES JAIL OVER FIGHT IN BAR

A YOUNG Premier League star has admitted affray after a melee involving him, his mum and friends erupted with a separate group in a nightclub’s VIP area.

Bottles were thrown and weapons used when Newcastle United winger Rolando Aarons, 22, and members of his family and friends clashed with at least five men in the trendy Livello bar on Newcastle’s Quayside.

The England under-20 player, his mother Joan Jacob, 46, and four others were originally charged with violent disorder but the prosecution accepted their guilty pleas to the lesser charge of affray.

One man in the other group suffered a “nasty” head injury, though this was caused after door staff intervened.

The judge said: “CCTV shows this incident blew up out of nowhere and suddenly there is a large melee involving numerous people.”

The venue has been compensated for damage caused, the judge said.

Only the injured man from the other group had made a witness statement and his friends had not helped police.

The judge added: “Some of them were involved in using violence against Mr Aarons and his family and friends.”

A member of the other group was the first to throw anything, the judge also said.

Aarons, who was born in Jamaica and raised in Bristol, is out on loan to Hellas Verona in Italy.

The judge granted all defendants bail, except for Garfield White, 23, a serving prisoner, ahead of sentencing on May 22.

The judge said: “All options remain open, including an immediate custodial sentence.” BRAWL: Rolando Aarons