Youth who went on run is given a longer sentence

A TEENAGE thug who went on the run after a brutal fight in Birmingham city centre has finally been caught and jailed.

- CARL JACKSON Court Reporter

Thomas Sweeney junior was due to be sentenced in August 2024 following a wild incident near Birmingham's Hippodrome Theatre a year earlier.

The then-18-year-old, along with his co-convicted mother Ellen Sweeney and father Thomas Sweeney senior admitted violent disorder and had asked the court to push back the date in order for him to get married first.

The three Sweeneys and other relatives were involved in violent and drunken scenes after spilling out of Glamorous nightclub, in Hurst Street, in the early hours of July 15, 2023.

The family attacked a number of men and women in what Judge Dean Kershaw described as "one of the worst" fights to ever take place in the city centre.

Sweeney junior's involvement included punching a man twice and then kicking him 14 times as well as striking out at a taxi driver.