THREE Gwent men are beginning jail and Youth Offenders' Institution sentences totalling more than three years after an attack in which one of their victims' heads was kicked "like a football."
In all, six people, all from Ebbw Vale, were involved in the incident in the town on September 2 last year.
CCTV footage shown at Newport crown court, showed two men being chased, set upon and repeatedly kicked and punched by the sextet.
Andrew Brain, 20, of Llangynidr Road, Ebbw Vale, was sentenced to 16 months in a Young Offenders' Institution after admitted two charges to attempting to cause grievous bodily harm with intent, on Tyrone Price and Stephen Trimm, and a charge of violent disorder.
Brothers Carl Davies, 25, and Sean Callaghan, 24, both of Hendre, Ebbw Vale, received 12-month jail terms after each admitting one charge of attempting to cause GBH with intent, and violent disorder.
Matthew Watkins, 17, brother of Davies and Callaghan, also of Hendre, Ebbw Vale, narrowly escaped a term in a Young Offenders' Institution, instead receiving a 24-month youth rehabilitation order. He admitted a charge of attempting to cause GBH with intent.
The brothers' niece Roseanna Llewellyn, 18, of Park Bychan, Ebbw Vale, and Callaghan's girlfriend Gemma Edmunds, 21, of Bethcar Street, Ebbw Vale, admitted a charge of violent disorder.
They received 16-month jail terms, suspended for a year, supervision orders and 250 hours unpaid work each.
Their victims, including a third man who escaped, were chased down a street in Ebbw Vale after the defendants left a nightclub. Callaghan had allegedly been attacked by them days earlier.
Neither Mr Price nor Mr Trimm was willing to co-operate with police investigations. The CCTV footage showed Mr Price being repeatedly punched and kicked by the four men, the two women joining in for a short period.
His Honour Judge Mark Furness said it was "remarkable" Mr Trimm appeared to have escaped serious injury as Brain had "used Mr Trimm's head like a football" while Callaghan had "poleaxed" him with one punch.
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