Duo brawled at Ice Queen

Two young men were today given conditional discharges after they admitted their part in a fight.

LeJuan Simmons, 20 and D’Lontay Landy, 20, were involved in a brawl in the parking lot of Ice Queen on June 9.

At 4:35am, police responded to a disturbance in the parking lot. When they arrived, they saw about 70 people gathered.

Crown Counsel Susan Mulligan told the court the officers’ attention was drawn to the cycle parking area as they heard a loud crash and saw two cycles fall to the ground.

When they went over, they saw Simmons and Landy “actively involved in a fight”.

Ms Mulligan said both men were swinging at each other, despite the officers telling them to stop.

After refusing to stop fighting a second time, police tasered both men and arrested them for affray.

In his first court hearing, Simmons apologised and said: ‘There were certain words that came at me that I don’t take lightly nowadays.

“I lost me father to how the words that came at me and that’s why I reacted that way.”

Simmons is enrolled in a football academy in England.

Sentencing Simmons first, Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner told Simmons he needed to stop partaking in “hooliganism”.

“This behaviour by young men must stop. You young people who are supposed to be stars must set an example.

“You can’t behave this way and say ‘I’m a star football player’.

“If you’re a star, you have got to behave like a star. If you’re a leader, you have got to behave like a leader.

“If you behave the same way when you’re provoked on the football field, you’re not going to get very far.”

Mr Warner also said the opportunity to play football is England is a chance to get out of the negative environment here.

“I don’t know why you would want to behave like that, especially in light of your personal circumstance.

“Rather than push you towards this type of behaviour, you should be running away from that type of environment.

“Run away, stay away from that type of environment that’s caused your family so much pain, if not, you may end up the same way.”

Mr Warner gave Simmons a conditional discharge for 12 months with the condition that he commit no further offences.

Landy pleaded guilty in court this morning and the court heard he is currently on probation for an unrelated offence.

Mr Warner said: “This offence occurred whilst you were on probation.

“The significance of that is that you should have been watching your step.

“Even though you weren’t on curfew, it would have been better if you didn’t go out that night.”

He continued: “As I told the other young man, this behaviour is unacceptable, especially in this environment where for no reasons it seems that situations getting out of hand with regard to violence and fighting and threats and weapons and all that.

“You have got to learn to get together and hang out, party and do what you want to do, but avoid these types of violence.

“You all haven’t got anywhere to go. This is 21 square miles. There’s one Front Street and one Ice Queen.

“What’s the sense of fighting then coming here and bothering me? It’s got to stop.”

Landy was also given a conditional discharge for a year and will remain on probation.