Five Polish workers have been given suspended prison sentences by the High Bailiff.

25 year old Marsin Stawney of Loch Promenade, Douglas, Czeslaw Krzysztof Cap and Lukasz Myga, both 24 and from Empress Drive, and Silvester Antoni Robaszynski, 28, of Richmond Grove, Douglas, all received 60 days suspended for two years for offences of affray.

Jacek Mariusz Turowski, 29, also of Loch Promenade, received 42 days suspended for two years for the lesser charge of threatening a person believing immediate violence to be committed.

Stuart Peters reports

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The defendants started to fight each other on February 19th on Queen's Promenade.

The incident originally occurred at 1.40 am inside Paramount City when a manager there saw two of the men - Myga and Cap - assaulting a Mr Stawney, and fearing for his safety intervened and pushed Myga away but Cap sustained an injury and was removed to Hospital.

All five were involved in fighting each other. Their advocate urged for a non-custodial sentence and asked that exclusion orders not be imposed as they all had good jobs on the Island and were highly thought of.

Mr Moyle said the incident was extremely serious, nasty and vicious. It started in the club with punches and continued outside, and Mr Reilly was to be commended for his efforts to stop the fight.

He imposed a five year exclusion order on all of the men and remanded them in custody until their removal from the Island.