Mass brawl erupts inside pub at Liverpool Street station

The brawl happened in a pub at Liverpool Street station
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Robin de Peyer10 December 2016
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A mass brawl between at least eight men broke out in a pub in a packed London station, witnesses said.

Shattered glass was left strewn across the floor in the Merchant of Bishopsgate pub in Liverpool Street station after the violence erupted on Friday night.

Commuters looked on in horror as the group of men “threw punches and wrestled on the ground” during the fighting.

Witness Alex Jury, a copywriter from Lewisham who was having a drink with a friend when the violence broke out, said: “I turned around and this old school kind of bar brawl had broken out.

“A group of men were throwing punches at each other and one of them was bleeding from the mouth.”

The 35-year-old went on: “There was another two pairs of men who had wrestled each other to the ground and were rolling around on the floor.

“I had to leap up out of my seat because they nearly knocked me out of it.

“There was broken glass everywhere, a lot of shouting, a lot of aggression.

“It came from nowhere and then was suddenly very violent. It wasn’t very nice at all.”

She added that the police dealt with the situation in a “calm, brave and professional” way, praising the “great job” officers did.

A British Transport Police spokeswoman said: “We were called to Liverpool Street station at around 9.50pm on Friday, 9 December, following a report of a fight.

“Our officers attended and two men were arrested.

“One of the men was later dearrested while the other, a 32-year-old man, was arrested on suspicion of actual bodily harm.”

The Evening Standard has contacted the Merchant of Bishopsgate for comment.

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