Sunderland pair fined after city centre pub attack on two brothers

Terence McCabe, 51, and Tony Douglas, 63, were involved in the incident at The Manor Bar, in Foyle Street, Sunniside.

The pair last month appeared in court alongside a third defendant, 33-year-old Gavin Carter, when each admitted a charge of assault by beating.

Carter, of Westerwood Drive, Doxford Park, was fined £403 and ordered to pay his victim £50 compensation.

But magistrates agreed to adjourn sentencing on McCabe, of Cumberland Road, Silksworth, and Douglas, of Gayhurst Crescent, Silksworth, after their solicitors said the full extent of their involvement could only be ascertained by the viewing of CCTV.

Both men were back in court on Thursday, July 7.

Magistrates at last month’s hearing heard the victims and their father had been socialising after watching a football match on January 22.

Prosecutor Glenda Beck said a melee ensued inside in which one brother was attacked by McCabe and Douglas.

After asking staff to call police and leaving the premises to wait outside, Carter turned up and punched the second brother in the face.

Mrs Beck alleged McCabe assaulted his victim twice and kicked him numerous times as he lay on the bar’s floor. However, McCabe, entered a guilty plea on the basis he punched twice but did not kick, which was accepted.

She said Douglas assaulted the same man.

Of the attacks by McCabe and Douglas, Mrs Beck said a female had came across with shots of tequila but then another female approached and had a phone and was recording.

She added: “He asked her to stop recording, and two males approached and began to argue with the brother.”

Mrs Beck said one of the attackers and the brother fell to the floor, adding: “The incident caused the bar staff to intervene and police were called.

“The group left and went outside but they asked to go back inside to look for a chain that a brother had lost.”

Douglas was fined £576 and ordered to pay £200 compensation while McCabe was fined £692 and ordered to pay £100.