A MOURNER at a funeral wake was one of three people injured when violence broke out at a Burnley club, a jury heard.

Burnley Crown Court heard how Stephen Riley was attacked when he went downstairs to use the telephone and somebody hit him on the head, leaving him with cuts.

Four of those said to be involved in the fracas, Manzar Waring, 20, and Kaneez Shah, 19, both of Ardwick Street, Shiraz Hussain, 18, of Walpole Street, all Burnley, and a 15-year-old from the town, deny violent disorder, on March 10.

Howard Bradshaw, prosecuting, said the defendants were with others on the ground floor of Little Miss G's club in Burnley and they and others played some part in the outbreak of violence inside the premises.

Fighting broke out between a number of men and some women, during the course of which a man named Paul Burrows was struck over the head by a man wielding a bottle.

He suffered a head wound and went to hospital, where he had stitches. Another man in the club was kicked about the body during the course of the trouble and he received an injury near his eye which also needed stitching.

Mr Bradshaw said chairs were picked up by at least one young woman in the club who ran at others and threw them.

The 15-year-old collecting together chairs and used them to attack customers.

Manzar Waring was fighting , issued threats of violence and at one stage stripped off his shirt.

Hussain was fighting in the corridor outside the main area of the club and Shah was also brawling.

Mr Bradshaw said the four defendants were arrested and interviewed. The 15-year-old denied slinging chairs but admitted being involved in a struggle.

Waring told officers he was not involved in scuffling and claimed he was attacked.

Hussain said he was present inside the club, was responsible for punching somebody although after he had been assaulted himself.

Shah told police she had hit another person although she said that person was attacking her brother. She admitted she threw a chair.

Mr Bradshaw told the court; "Each defendant maintains they were a victim of violence, rather than being somebody responsible for creating it."

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