ONE of two brothers involved in a drunken brawl before taking to a supermarket roof, was today starting a nine month jail term.

Steven Ellison, 30, and his late brother Mark were captured on CCTV chasing an unknown man across an Accrington car park before knocking him to the ground and repeatedly kicking and punching him, Burnley Crown Court heard.

They then ended up on the roof of KwikSave where they were joined in the early hours by PC Jason Marsden who finally persuaded them to come down.

The court was told Steven Ellison had gone out celebrating after being cured of a serious illness. He had earlier been admitted to hospital after returning from Thailand.

Sentencing Ellison, Judge Lesley Newton said the victim was clearly injured, although he did not make a complaint to police. The defendant's behaviour was the kind of public disorder that caused such dismay to ordinary people out and about in the town centre.

She added she accepted two groups of men had been in dispute and a bottle had been hurled at the defendant's party, but only prison was justified.The judge said it was Ellison's six or seventh conviction for public disorder, all presumably committed in drink.

Judge Newton also congratulated PC Marsden for performing what she described as a "difficult and potentially very dangerous role," that night.

Ellison, of Grimshaw Street, Great Harwood, had admitted affray and had been committed for sentence by the Hyndburn magistrates.

The proceedings against Mark Ellison, who died on January 26, were stayed by the court after the judge read a coroner's report..

Roger Baldwin, prosecuting, said at 2.40am last November 10 the victim was attacked by the Ellisons and another man.