Long jail terms for pair after attack in pub

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-  CARL EVE

TWO men have been jailed after being found guilty of conspiring to cause grievous bodily harm to drinkers at a Plymouth pub.

Sam Flanders of Claremont Street, Plymouth, and Jack Barker, of no fixed abode, were charged with a number of offences after they carried out the terrifying attack along with a third unidentified man in the Firkin Doghouse pub on Union Street, Plymouth, on the evening of Friday, August 19, last year.

On the night, multiple emergency vehicles were called to the pub at around 8.15pm. Witnesses spoke of seeing one man sitting on a chair outside the pub with wounds and another man with a "large gash" across his stomach.

At the time, one eyewitness to the incident told The Herald: "It looked like a large group of people had come specifically to attack another group. People in the pub were armed with anything they could, like chairs from inside the pub, trying to fight the other group away, who were all wearing black, some on bikes."

Prosecutor Ed Bailey told Plymouth Crown Court that Barker pleaded guilty to the charge of conspiring to cause grievous bodily harm with intent while Flanders denied it, but was found guilty following trial.