A Dundee man who was caught up in a bar brawl which ended with him launching a pole at a pub doorway has been jailed for four months.
Sean McLean Mitchell Cameron (24), St Mary Street, was bottled in the head, receiving a cut as glasses, bottles and chairs were sent flying through Bar Bongo in South Tay Street just after midnight on Saturday, his solicitor told Sheriff Munro at Dundee Sheriff Court on Monday.
Cameron admitted that in the early hours of Sunday morning, in South Tay Street, he possessed an offensive weapon, namely a pole. He further admitted culpably and recklessly throwing the pole into the doorway of Bar Bongo to the danger and risk of injury to patrons there, both while on bail.
Depute fiscal Gillian Sim told the court Cameron was seen on CCTV carrying a large white plastic pole. He was seen to be challenging customers in the pub to fight before he threw the pole into the crowd at the doorway of the pub.
Solicitor Theo Finlay said Cameron had been inside the pub with a group of friends when a fight erupted, unconnected to him. He said it was the best and worst kind of bar-room brawl, depending on one’s outlook, and there was fairly extreme violence which resulted in Cameron being bottled and struck on the head.
Probably due to the injury, he said, Cameron had little recollection of how he got outside. Once there, though, he became part of a “baying mob” while the people involved in the initial brawl were still inside the pub.
“What he did was very much a reaction to what had happened inside,” Mr Finlay said.
He said a description of Cameron being seen on CCTV wearing a white T-shirt covered in blood was, in fact, his own blood from a cut caused by a bottle to the head.
Sheriff Munro told Cameron, “I don’t have any alternative but to send you to prison.”