Two rival groups fought each other with weapons in broad daylight

VIOLENCE SPARKED BY ALLEGATION OF PHONE THEFT

- By MARTIN NAYLOR martinnnaylor@reachplecom

TWO rival groups fought with weapons in the middle of the afternoon in Nottingham as terrified students watched on.

CCTV played at Nottingham Crown Court which showed two hooded men brandishing knives while brothers Aband and Mohson Ahmed, together with a third man - Mohammed Sabir - waved a hammer, metal bar and a wheel brace.

In the five-minute clip, initial posturing turns to violence with punches and kicks aimed at one of them after he falls to the floor. The two knifemen have never been identified.

The spark for the incident was merely an allegation over a stolen mobile phone. Sentencing the trio, Judge Michael Auty KC said: “The people of this city are sick to the back teeth of street violence where people take the law into their own hands.

“The background is the loss of a mobile phone. Fine, we have a police service that deals with that. What you sought to do was to recover the mobile phone in the way I have seen on the CCTV. Think for one minute if one of your elderly relatives would have witnessed something like this they would have been absolutely terrified.