Thugs with knife and gun threaten bouncers at bar

RACIST louts pulled out a firearm and knife during a violent clash with bouncers, months after taking part in a city centre riot.

- ROB KENNEDY

Lewis Stubbs and Tony Hall threw missiles at police and burgled a vape shop during the scenes that brought shame on Sunderland in August, 2024.

Then, in February this year, the pair had been at the Old Skool bar, on Vine Street, Sunderland, and were asked to leave after something happened in the early hours.

Two members of door staff were asked to assist in getting them out and one of them told Hall he couldn’t leave with a glass of beer in his hand.

Neil Pallister, prosecuting, told Newcastle Crown Hall and Stubbs became aggressive and threatened to knock out one of the bouncers.

Mr Pallister said: “Stubbs got very close to him and grabbed his hat and threw it away.

“The two defendants began to walk away but when the complainant went to pick up his hat, Stubbs ran and picked it up and put it down his tracksuit bottoms and rubbed his bottom on it and threw the hat back to him.