THREE men were jailed for fighting with glasses, cans and a hammer in Tredegar town centre, a court heard.

Two women were also given a community order and a youth handed a detention and training order for their part in the violence, which took place in the early hours of June 10.

The seven defendants appeared in Newport crown court on Friday charged with affray.

Paul Stait, 24, of Queen Square, Tredegar, was jailed for nine months, and will serve a further three months as part of a suspended prison sentence he was given in January 2007 for assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

Jonathon Weaver, 18, who was already in prison, was sentenced to a further 12 months imprisonment.

Tyrone Morgan, 23, of Tredegar Avenue, Ebbw Vale, will serve 10 months in prison and a 17 year old man, who cannot be named, was given an eight month detention and training order.

Amy Williams, 18, of Waunheulog, Ebbw Vale, and Jodie Williams, 18, of Roundhouse Close, Ebbw Vale, were both given a two year community order.

Anthony Evans, 23, of Walter Conway Avenue, Tredegar, will be sentenced for his involvement in the affray on November 7.

John Probert, prosecuting, showed the court CCTV footage from the scene and described the defendants’ varying participation in the violence.

Stait and Evans were shown loitering outside a house from which the other five appeared and the two groups engaged in a fight, throwing missiles at one another.

Weaver was shown carrying a hammer from the house, which Amy Williams threw at Stait and Evans, and Stait threw back, hitting Morgan on the head and wounding him.

Mr Probert described Stait as the main instigator of the violence, and he was shown throwing a pint glass and later attempting to break into the house with Evans when the other five went indoors.

The footage showed the pair attempting to force the front door open by running at it with bin bags and hitting it with an iron bar, which had been thrown from a window at them by the 17 year old.

Amy Williams, Jodie Williams, Anthony Evans, Tyrone Morgan and Paul Stait had pleaded guilty to the offences, and Weaver and the 17 year old youth were found guilty at trial.

Sentencing, Judge David Morris said: “Everyone needs to know that those who take part or prepare to take part in an incident on our public streets will lose their liberty.”