A group of Asian youths taken on a day-trip to Blackpool to avoid becoming embroiled violence at an EDL march ended up knocking a man unconscious in a car park brawl.Five teenagers have been found guilty of their part in the incident in which a father-of-two was punched to the ground.
The five were part of a group of youths who were taken to on the trip on July 17 last year, the day of an English Defence League march in Dudley in the West Midlands.
The day-trip cost the public purse £2,113 and saw the group from the Tipton and Oldbury areas of the West Midands accompanied by a police officer and officials from the council.
The clash happened after the youths got off their coach and began chanting racist comments at Derek Brownhill, who had just got off a coach parked nearby.
The chants were heard by Mr Brownhill's pregnant partner and two young daughters, as well as a group of elderly people, the court was told
In the ensuing confrontation Mr Brownhill was punched and hit with such force by Riad Hussain, 19, that both feet left the ground.
Wolverhampton Crown Court was told the blows left unconscious and with bruising and swelling to his face and head.
The group then punched Hussain, from Oldbury, in the face to give him a bruise so they could try to claim that his actions were in self defence. Read More
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